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In the Skype board room late last week…

Skype CTO: “I’m sorry mister CEO, our entire network went down. We’re working to get it back up but everyone is getting really upset with us.”

Skype CEO: “How soon until we are back up?”

Skype CTO: “I’m not sure. I called in all our top engineers - they are working night and day until it is fixed.”

Skype CEO: “Any idea what happened?”

Skype CTO: “No, not a clue. All I can tell you at this point is it was a massive outage.”

Skype CEO: “Is there any way to salvage our reputation? Can we blame it on anyone else?”

Skype CTO: “Well, Microsoft releases patches through Windows Update every month and earlier this week they pushed the new updates to their users. Maybe we can say that was the cause?”

Skype CEO: “Okay, we have a solution. Blame Microsoft. Marketing Director - get us some copy from PR so we can get this to the people as fast as possible. Once everyone starts following along they’ll forget about what really happened and by that time we’ll have it fixed. Everyone, to your battle stations.”

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From The Register article…

Skype has blamed last week’s prolonged outage on the effects of Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday.

The latest security update from Microsoft required a system reboot. The effect of so many machines rebooting and subsequently trying to log onto the Skype VoIP network triggered system instability and a prolonged outage of almost two days starting on Thursday1. Services have now being restored.

The Register - Patch Tuesday update triggered Skype outage

Techmeme is all over it. It is sounding like most people aren’t buying into the excuse.

Official “Press Release”

Tags: Skype, Outage, Microsoft

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