Mega Outage for Skype

Skype, the most popular internet telephony and instant messaging service had to face outage in its service. This became a massive outage as Skype currently has 220 million registered users. As this is a free service, the count is massive. But for some small business organizations, Skype was the lifeline to communicate. These customers had to face a huge loss due to this outage.


The Skype network went down on Thursday 16th Aug. It was down the whole day on 16th then on Friday midnight (GMT) officials provided an update that the problem of logging into Skype is resolved. But still there were many things to do, the Chat engine was not working and also the problem was not fully resolved.

Meanwhile, there were rumours that Skype system was crashed or it has been hacked. There were also rumours that Skype outage was due to the recent update in its software. But both E-Bay and Skype declared this news as un-official and false. Skype, which was founded by Niklas and Janus was taken over by E-Bay in October 2005 for $2.1 Billion. It used peer to peer technology to communicate over Internet Protocol. The client is supported on almost every operating system available today. The best thing is that, it offers calling over VOIP for free. This is the major reason for its popularity. There was also a record that Skype had more than 9 million users at one point of time.



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