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Skype, the peer-to-peer voice over IP provider has issued a clarification to it’s press release with regards to their recent outage.

On August the 16th, Skype suffered a major outage as Windows machines received normal updates from Microsoft and Skype systems began to fall over.

Skype has issued a new press release stating that the outage was not Microsoft’s fault, rather the cause was Skype’s network not being able to sustain a large number of simultaneous node reboots. The Microsoft patch required that machines be rebooted. As they did so during a period of high utilisation of Skype’s VoIP network, the network became unstable leading to ‘critical disruption’.

Skype state that they have now done everything necessary to ensure such an outage does not occur again as a result of this type of a Microsoft update.

You can read the full text of the Skype press-release here

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