Yesterday Skype was down for all of its millions of users, and I still can’t get connected today. I tried a few times and thought it was something that I did — luckily I run about 17 different IM clients and generally can work around it — but this would have been a problem in my former employer who relied on Skype like the phone system to connect its far-flung operations. Check out their blog for updates. What they are saying publicly doesn’t make any sense to me, and if any of you have the real story please post here.

The service is back after two-plus days of outages, and their explanation is somewhat fishy, as Kevin Maney from Conde-Nast says:

Microsoft last Tuesday issued a Windows “patch,” which caused millions of Skype users to restart their computers (and thus Skype) by Thursday. The massive re-loading triggered a software glitch in Skype’s system that resulted in the crash.

I dunno — sounds like blaming a flood on the NFL because everyone flushed their toilets at halftime during the Super Bowl.