The Skype story lingers on
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This is one of those stories that will run and run, until it reaches the point where we cannot even remember the cause, but the day that Skype went dead will forever live on in internet folklore.
The story continues with a rather strange explanation coming out of Skype HQ. They blame Microsoft and why not they get the blame for most things that happen or go wrong in the world. But they are not directly responsible; well nobody is going to go that far are they?
The blame is left squarely on the shoulders of the Microsoft users, for once a month Microsoft release their security updates, this is normally done on the second Tuesday of the month and august was no exception, in fact the day was actually called Patch Tuesday, and yet this still had nothing directly to do with the Skype crash.
What happens when a machine receives an update? The computer is rebooted and this is the key, the reboot! Millions of Microsoft users around the world all rooting their computers to finish of the security update from Microsoft this proved just too much for the Skype software and it began to fail.
Naturally the reboot was not the culprit, the process was, because when the computer reboots, it has to load the software applications again, that means all those millions of computers all sending in logging request to Skype which started a chain reaction of failures until the entire system crashed and we know the story from there.
Now all we need to do is decide whether or not this is true, surely in the course of an average day Skype and many of the other similar applications all receive logging in requests all of the time from most of their users, the only exception being those that leave their computers on all of the time. So the system must be able to handle a large amount of requests in a single burst. Besides the requests are going to be coming at different times, it is not as if the everyone waited until a certain time and then bang all of the users logged in at the same moment, or is it?
Naturally there are going to be conspiracy theories being floated around and why not, something of this magnitude deserves at least one or two conspiracies at the very least, although it has to be said there are not any good ones that I have heard yet!
The day that Skype died will live on, I am sure of that.
Source [Times Online]
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