Since the end of the morning, Skype is conspicuously absent. The service is aware of the problem and promises to resolve it as soon as possible.
The week beginning is complicated for Skype users. Indeed in the late morning several countries including the UK, Australia, Japan and France, saw - and still see some - mail service and VoIP will completely paralyze. The contacts have been disconnected and restart the service is impossible. Skype, alerted by the Internet users, reacted quickly on his page indicating medium to be aware of the fault.
The specific services to be confronted with several problems. "If you are connected to Skype. You will not be able to change your status and your contacts will be marked offline even if they are. Therefore, you can not initiate a call with them ... A few messages from the group of cats could not be delivered ... Web pages can also have difficulties loading. "
An endless inventory that is still not resolved at the time of publication of this article. A failure that occurs the day Microsoft announced further integration of Skype in the Edge this browser on Windows 10 without additional add-on. This new API of particular interest to developers of Skype and Skype for Business, which announce that the web version of their offer will soon be able to carry voice calls and video without plug-in.
The media said on its website that the problem had been identified and the teams are in the process of reconnect users and reactivate all services. It states that Skype Business users have not been affected