They aren't prepared for Windows updates? That doesn't sound right at all. Frankly they need to own up to the error and stop blaming others.

Don't get all uppity - they did own up:

"Skype said that whilst their peer-to-peer network has an inbuilt ability to self-heal, the event 'revealed a previously unseen software bug within the network resource allocation algorithm which prevented the self-healing function from working quickly.'"

They were just explaining why it failed now, and not when the bug was introduced years ago.

Hahahah -breath- hahahahah

Ultimate justice for the evil default setting "Start and connect on boot".

Gotta inflate those "average # of connected users/day" figures somehow.

I wonder if Skype's infrastructure will wind up recapitulating half of Erlang's runtime system in a very depressing Greenspun's Tenth Law kind of way.

yeah right!