Synchronized Reboot Smokes Skype
Skype has finished its sleuthing and is ready to report on the conditions which led to the company discovering a flaw in its P2P networking code. The culprit? It turns out that Skype’s code wasn’t prepared for a massive restart of PCs caused by the standard Windows patching process.
“The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they rebooted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update,” Skype indicated on its blog. In other words, the conditions which led to the outage began with August’s very own Patch Tuesday. The name is given to the second Tuesday of the month, which Microsoft typically uses to push out patches via Windows Update. Read More»
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