29.12.2010 16:05 Uhr, Quelle: MacNN

Skype: outdated Windows version triggered outages

Skype honored its promises today and gave a post-mortem on the reasons behind its worldwide outage. The company blamed the failure on a bug in a slightly outdated Windows version of Skype. After some servers handling offline text chat were overloaded, these older clients -- which were still 20 percent of all users --couldn't handle the delays and crashed, taking down some of the supernodes managing calls and putting too much strain on others.

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