Skype is now blaming Microsoft’s “Patch Tuesday” for the outage which disrupted their service for over 48 hours starting from August 16th. Skype believes that the massive outage was cause “by a massive restart of our (Skype) users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update.”
It’s pretty surprising because Windows Update has been running since a long time and this isn’t the only instance of where users had to restart their computers after receiving updates. If massive restart was the reason for the outage, why didn’t this happen earlier?
Second notable point is that Windows Update by default restarts your computer after receiving updates at 3 AM. There is no way all computers can restart around the globe at once, unless everybody volunteered to set the same time to restart.
This move of blaming Microsoft didn’t do any good, except for fetching them some bad PR.
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