{"id":1063,"date":"2007-08-20T11:54:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/f5c318f60bd1cdf26e44ae938ec39d49"},"modified":"2007-08-20T11:54:50","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T18:54:50","slug":"skype-is-not-an-emergency-service-but-it-is-becoming-vital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=1063","title":{"rendered":"Skype is not an emergency service, but it is becoming vital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not a Skype customer then you probably didn't notice the blip that wiped out Skype connectivity for the better part of 48 hours. For those of us that rely on Skype on a daily basis, losing access was pretty fundamental. Not only do I use it for business, but our home phone is now Skype based too. <\/p>\n<p>The official reason, reported <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/share.skype.com\/sites\/en\/2007\/08\/what_happened_on_august_16.html\">here<\/a><\/b> gives some detail to the issues - all triggered, it seems, by a massive automated Windows update. <\/p>\n<p>The only section of the report I don't agree with is this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=ZLRykU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=ZLRykU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/146215943\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not a Skype customer then you probably didn&#8217;t notice the blip that wiped out Skype connectivity for the better part of 48 hours. For those of us that rely on Skype on a daily basis, losing access was pretty fundamental. Not only do I use it for business, but our home phone is now Skype based too. <\/p>\n<p>The official reason, reported <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/share.skype.com\/sites\/en\/2007\/08\/what_happened_on_august_16.html\">here<\/a><\/b> gives some detail to the issues &#8211; all triggered, it seems, by a massive automated Windows update. <\/p>\n<p>The only section of the report I don&#8217;t agree with is this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=ZLRykU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=ZLRykU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/146215943\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}