Skype says outage caused by massive restart by users
A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone call program was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after a routine software update, the company said Monday.The worldwide outage, which began on Thursday and ended on Saturday, left millions of Skype users unable to log on to make phone calls or send instant messages.
Luxembourg-based Skype, part of online auction giant eBay Inc, has more than 220 million users in total but typically has 5 million to 6 million users online at any given time. In January, Skype reported that it had counted 9 million users online at one time.
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