The Globe and Mail’s website reported that Skype is blaming Microsoft for the recent outage that occurred recently on their peer-to-peer telephone software. The outage lasted for approximately two full days.

“The disruption was triggered by a massive restart of our users’ computers across the globe within a very short timeframe as they re-booted after receiving a routine set of patches through Windows Update. The high number of restarts affected Skype’s network resources,” says a post from Skype’s blog.

There is also a flaw in their software and it is also one of the reason of the outage.

The blog also stated, “Normally Skype’s peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, however, this event revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.”

Source: The Globe and Mail