Skype Outage Caused by Microsoft Update

August 20, 2007 By MATT MOORE, AP Business Writer Skype Outage Caused by Microsoft Update

(AP) -- A two-day outage that left millions of Skype users unable to use the popular Internet phone service was caused by an abnormally high number of restarts after people had downloaded a Windows security update, the company said Monday.

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