Has your Skype taken a break like ours? Read how to fix it

We got various reports from around the world that Skype connectivity is not operating normally. We’ve seen a similar outage not too long ago, we hope this time it won’t be as bad as the last time.

Timing couldn’t be worse, I guess, as it’s been just over two weeks since Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion and this is definitely not a good start for Microsoft’s rule.
It’s still unclear what’s the reason behind the problem – it might be a planned attack against Skype itself or just a problem with their data centers. At the moment of writing, the Skype official website is down as well.
I hope Skype will deal with this quickly and won’t lose its entire world network once again.

Skype has a solution for bringing tech savvy users back online. It requires deleting the shared.xml file, instructions for which are available for Windows 7, XP and Mac OS X (so yes, Apple computers have been bitten by the same bug too). A simpler fix is said to be in the works as well.

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Skype goes down globally, investigation underway (update: restored)

There's a pretty widespread outage of Skype going on right this minute, judging by the explosion of tweets relating to it. It's not universal, as we've been able to log in and use the internet communicator for both text and video chat, but something's definitely gone wrong. So far, we've noticed our OS X machines are ticking along just fine, but our Windows computers are not. Importantly, we had to upgrade one of our Windows desktops to "break" Skype, which indicates it could be a fault contained in the latest version, but then again, it could have simply been just a case of terrible timing. The iPhone and Android apps look to be unaffected, but skype.com is down and out. Skype is on the case right now and will have more details for us "soon."


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