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Old 08-16-2007, 10:40 AM
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Skype Suffers Major Outage
Skype has suffered a major service outage that started from approximately 3am PST Thursday.

Skype advised that their engineering team had determined that the downtime was due to a software issue, with the problem expected to be solved “within 12 to 24 hours.”

The issue was serious enough to cause Skype to temporarily disable all downloads of the Skype client.

Skpe has had a very strong record of uptime previously and this outage is a first in recent memory. In comparison Twitter was down intermittently from 7pm PST Wednesday for around 6 hours, a fairy regular occurrence. Skype remained down at the time of writing as at 7:30am PST.

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Old 08-16-2007, 12:24 PM
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That sounds like they just found a huge security issue, or there was some sort of data loss.
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Yeah, but it's working fine now.
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I spoke too soon. It seems like there are still intermittent problems with Skype. I can't keep my connection alive!
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I had connection problems still this morning, but for the moment, it appears to be working.
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