Windows Users Bring Skype To Its Knees

Last Thursday, popular VoIP application Skype suffered a serious outage, prompting even more serious outrage at the service that has become critical to many small businesses and freelancers. eBay, the company that owns Skype, lost some serious market cap due to the outage, and we were once again reminded of the danger of putting ones eggs in a single basket.

But Skype is back up-and-running (and a pretty awesome service, I must admit), and this morning they have published an official statement about the cause of the outage.

Turns out the problem was “triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.”

That’s right - Windows broke Skype.

Stupid jerks.