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Microsoft is facing the music for its most recent blunder: a massive Skype service disruption that affected its entire network. The outage was definitely an inconvenience for many, but to its credit, Microsoft provided full disclosure for the incident, and even offered an apology.
Microsoft claimed that it released a "larger-than-usual" configuration change that some versions of Skype were unable to deploy correctly. This caused users to be disconnected from the network, and the heavy traffic triggered by so many clients attempting to reconnect produced network-wide service interruption of Skype's free services, including messaging, presence and contact list management.
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This is good news for Skype users.
Microsoft claimed that it released a "larger-than-usual" configuration change that some versions of Skype were unable to deploy correctly. This caused users to be disconnected from the network, and the heavy traffic triggered by so many clients attempting to reconnect produced network-wide service interruption of Skype's free services, including messaging, presence and contact list management.
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This is good news for Skype users.
