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Skype still down for millions of users

article published on 22 December, 2010

Skype, the popular Internet phone and video service, remains down for millions of global users, the second such widespread outage since 2007. Beginning at around noon EST, many outraged took to Twitter to voice their complaints about not being able to sign in. Skype acknowledged the outage very soon after: "Some of you may have problems signing in to Skype ? we?re investigating, and ... [ read the full article ]

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biglo30
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22. December 2010 @ 23:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Although I'm a user of skype somethings they do just really sucks, Two things that really bother me about them, it the fact that you can't close your skype account. And the thing that really ticks me off about it is when I use it to chat on my laptop and close out the convo and app, then move to my computer and signing on there, all of my previous conversations start to continuous and randomly pop up again.
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22. December 2010 @ 23:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hahahaha.. proprietary software is crap .. ekiga is free and doesn't mess about like this.



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23. December 2010 @ 08:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Probably the most inconvenient part of my day yesterday! Skype are sodding useless anyway, it's only taken them about 3 years to release an official app for Android which is still shit.


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23. December 2010 @ 16:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I love it when services like this go down and seeing people whine. It's even funnier when Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, etc. go down and people are totally lost.
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