“Voice Over IP(VoIP) and chat service Skype has crashed throughout the world and continues to crash on login, leading many to suspect that its recent acquisition by Microsoft is a definite disaster,” Dean Wilson reports for The Inquirer.
“The service began to crash around 12:15pm UK time, kicking people offline and freezing when they tried to log back in again. Other users who remained online had difficulties making calls. Restarting your PC or reinstalling Skype has no effect, as the problem is clearly on Skype’s end,” Wilson reports. “It’s just over two weeks since Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5bn, much to the dismay of many of its users. While it’s unlikely that Microsoft would make any deliberate changes that would cause instability in its new VoIP subsidiary, the seemingly coincidental timing of this massive outage has led to rampant speculation about what it could be up to.”
Wilson reports, “A number of people instantly began slating Microsoft over the crash, suggesting that it was working on things behind the scenes to make the service as crash-prone as Windows itself.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We’re sure that Microsoft is working hard to bring Skype in line with the company’s standards of quality and reliability.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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If not Skype, which service? I have a skype phone and to date it has worked well as a replacement for a landline. Maybe it’s time to consider another option.
MS are the software OS masters. If they don’t want something to work, it’s not working. They do know how to make a fairly simple software application work when they want it to work. For some unknown reason, the Skype is still crashing, thus, booting users offline. I think it’s a show of force that MS has power over all of us. They can just turn us off they making their updates worthy of a guaranteed crash. They do know what they are doing. It would had been fixed by now had they intended for it to work after the acquisition of Skype.