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Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage

Posted by samzenpus on from the going-down dept.

Stoobalou writes "VoIP and instant messaging service Skype has disappeared from the Internet, nary a fortnight after Microsoft snaffled up the outfit in a $8.5 billion deal."

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  1. Like father like son by Progman3K · · Score: 3, Funny

    So Skype is already adopting MS's reliability

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  2. Re:Is everybody really that stupid? by Tsingi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is not running Skype yet. It takes months for these deals to go through. And TFA suggests that Skype has never gone down before, which is BS. 'Disappeared from the Internet'? Seriously?

    The only useful thing in this submission is that I learned the word 'snaffled.'

    It's a safe assumption that the word snaffled derives from the early Latin acronym, snafu, which translates: Situation Normal All Fucked Up.

  3. Re:Hotmail all over again by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah but now all skype calls start with the windows 95 startup sound.....

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  4. Re:kdawson? Is that you? by Combatso · · Score: 3, Funny

    or possibly CNN