Skype goes down across Europe, Microsoft starts wondering if it bought wisely

Uh oh, Skype’s experiencing its second big outage in the space of just a couple of weeks, as we’re hearing reports from the UK, Netherlands, and yes, even Bulgaria, claiming the online communications service is down. Our own Skype clients are currently unable to move past the “Connecting…” status note, both on Mac OS X and Windows 7. For its part, the company describes this as an issue affecting “a small number” of us, and further details should be available soon. Skype goes down across Europe, Microsoft starts wondering if it bought wisely originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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