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Aug 20 2007 2:20PM EDT

Hm. So Skype essentially blames Microsoft for the worldwide 36-hour outage of Skype service last week. A lot of observers say that smells kind of fishy (see many of the comments on TechCrunch), or spin-like at best.

The explanation goes like this: Microsoft last Tuesday issued a Windows "patch," which caused millions of Skype users to restart their computers (and thus Skype) by Thursday. The massive re-loading triggered a software glitch in Skype's system that resulted in the crash.

I dunno -- sounds like blaming a flood on the NFL because everyone flushed their toilets at halftime during the Super Bowl.

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