Did Windows Update take out the Skype network?

[<rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/windows-update-.html

Skype is finally back online after a massive two-day outage which began on
Thursday, August 16th and rendered the VoIP service useless for an estimated
220 million users. As we reported on Friday, Skype has denied charges that
the outage was the result of an attack, but the company delayed an official
explanation until today.

According to Skype the outage was caused by a massive number of users
restarting their machines, which flooded the Skype network with login
requests. Skype blames the restarts on Windows Update, presumably large
numbers of users rebooting after installing this month's "Patch Tuesday"
Windows patches.

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