Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage

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."

Comments

Re:Hotmail all over again

[mewshi_nya]

Or, you know, it could just be a server issue. If you look, and ask Skype users, the outage is already over.

I know, not as fun as MS-bashing, but the best bashing is based on fact.

Seriously...

[kvvbassboy]

I am really sick of this yellow journalism that's been popping up lately on Slashdot! Whoever is putting these articles on the front page, needs to do a better job.

It's supposed to be "News For Nerds", just report actual fucking facts related to science or tech, and not anti-MS bullshit or what color muffin Steve Jobs had for breakfast!

kdawson? Is that you?

[L4t3r4lu5]

1) Poorly researched, out of date information.
2) Inaccurate, inflammatory headline.
3) Short, information-free stub.

Sure seems like him.

Re:Like father like son

[Locutus]

some of us have been around the block for too many years to not have fun with this. Microsoft may have finally got a version of their OS uptimes high enough to not require redundant servers(hardware) with failover but it's taken them decades to finally do it. Not to mention the huge increase in man hours it's taken to support Windows systems. They are a joke because they earned it.

Many of us lived through the hardships of a conversion from UNIX to Windows and it has not been pretty. I'm reminded of how Microsoft themselves has quite the difficulty converting Hotmail from UNIX to Windows. It's been said it took about 2x the hardware to finally get Hotmail running on Windows instead of UNIX. You don't shake that off unless you're either a newbie, a fanboi, or both.

LoB