Microsoft organized reboot takes down 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 [...]

Weird Notepad.exe Bug

I’m not sure how this went unnoticed for so long, but the Internets are ablaze with this tidbit today:

Open up Notepad
Type in this sentence exactly (without quotes): “this app can break”
Save the file
Close Notepad
Open the saved file
?????
PROFIT?

Although, now that I think about it, there actually are some forbidden strings in older versions Notepad. Microsoft got [...]