Skype Once Again Went Down for Users Worldwide

Microsoft’s Skype instant messaging service has once again experienced a major outage for users in several countries worldwide.

The software giant says it has already resolved the issue and Skype is working normally right now, but I’m still seeing isolated reports of users unable to connect to the service.

Specifically, users complained that chats failed to load correctly, while others said sending and receiving messages happened with major lag for all users participating in a conversation.

A number of users said they were unable to call and add people to a group chat and their message history wasn’t loading. Others said they experienced a delay of up to one hour.

Issue already resolved, not for everyone though

Microsoft confirmed on Twitter that it discovered an incident hitting the servers and acknowledged that the instant messaging feature was mostly impacted. The affec... (read more)

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