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Skype: It was Windows Update that crashed our network!




Posted by ketyung
on Aug/20/2007
at 7:25 am

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Skype: It was Windows Update that caused our network crashed!
Skype peer-to-peer network became unstable and suffered a critical disruption on Thursday, August 16th. And Skype put the blame on Microsoft. According to them, the disruption was caused by massive restart of users’ computers across the globe within a short period of time frame as users rebooted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows update.

The high number of restarts affected Skype’s network resources, such as the flood of log-in requests, exhausted the peer-to-peer network resources, and with several chain reactions that caused a critical impact. Skype’s network supposed to have a self healing function. But due to an early bug, the self-healing function didn’t respond as quick as expected to heal the network, until a critical disruption occurred that caused its service unavailable for the majority of Skype’s users for about two days.

Skype: Microsoft, you better watch out! Look into the possibility of producing some the kind of Windows patches update without the need to restart Windows! Or, if possible, produce the kinda Windows that is fully secure and needs no periodical update! (Sorry, this my own version)

via [GizMoDo]

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