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Skype gives customers $1 for last week's downtime

article published on 30 December, 2010

Last week, Skype had its second-longest outage, ever, with most of its users being unable to access the service for just over 24 hours. Today, Skype explained what happened, which I will post a snippet of here:On Wednesday, December 22, a cluster of support servers responsible for offline instant messaging became overloaded. As a result of this overload, some Skype clients received delayed ... [ read the full article ]

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30. December 2010 @ 10:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hmmm, not convinced, I'm on the latest version and I was effected. Did get my $1 though :D



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30. December 2010 @ 14:32 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow. Now I can go to Gap and get those pants I always wanted!!

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31. December 2010 @ 05:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
WOW THANKS skype, i never got my credit, but you just sent me an email to charge me for skypro which i though i had already cancelled.

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