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Microsoft organized reboot takes down Skype
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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.
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