Skype users worldwide victim to mysterious crash
Skype appears to have suffered a significant and bizarre crash, with users worldwide reporting problems on Twitter.
Not long after the company has announced a major deal with Microsoft it has become victim to unspecified problems, with some reports of the programme shutting down with a Windows error message. Twitter is now seeing floods of angry messages by users who have been booted of the system and are now unable to login or even start up the Skype programme itself. An error message appears on Skype and users are not able to even get to the next log-in screen. Much of the vitriol is aimed at Microsoft, with one user tweeting: “Major worldwide Skype crash, thanks Microsoft!”.
Update: Skype's servers are screwed. There is a notice online which says: "Hi, our server has taken a short break. "Looks like our server is down. This usually means that we're doing maintenance work or there are too many visitors at skype.com and we cannot cope with the popularity. In any case — we're already fixing it and everything should be back to normal in a few minutes." What's happened here then? Not much or has Skype been hit badly? Somewhere in Redmond, someone is sweating...
Update 2: Thanks to commenter Rael, who mentions Skype's quick-fix post at heartbeat.skype.com.