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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. Re:Whoops by olehenning · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're lucky enough to live in North America that is. Google Voice isn't internationally available as far as I know.

  2. Re:Stop whining... by monkeyhybrid · · Score: 5, Informative

    No need to uninstall Skype or touch the config.xml file. Just rename shared.xml to shared.xml.bak (or simply delete it as will be recreated next time Skype runs). Job done.

  3. Re:works in NYC by geegel · · Score: 5, Informative

    It was an XML glitch, corrupting the config.xml and/or shared.xml files, which are locally stored. They need to be removed manually, since a reinstall won't touch them. Anyway, this led to a surge of traffic to skype.com, the predictable /. effect and a lot of FUD.

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  4. 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.