Skype Back Online
After two days, Skype finally got back online after last weeks incident. Skype has announced that the reason for their downtime was due to millions of users simultaneously restarting their computers after downloading an update. Roughly 220 Million people could not make Internet calls on Thursday as a result of this bug. Skypes blog had this to say.
“however this event revealed a previously unseen software bug which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly. Regrettably as a result of this disruption, Skype was unavailable for to the majority of its users for approximately two days”.
Analysts were surprised over Skype’s reason, explaining that even if the amount of active people (around 6 million) performed updates simultaneously no problem would present it self. Skype - brought by eBay for $2.6 billion - strongly stated that there down time was not due to a cyber attack.
Skype is now back online, despite many people still saying they are having problems with multi-billion dollar company.
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