Skype services restored after outage

However, many users complained that their Skype service was completely unusable.

However, users of the web version of Skype were unaffected.

Commenting on the issue, the Skype officials said that with an estimated 300 million us million users, per month, Skype engineers are trying their level best to resolve the problem so that the users can enjoy error free calling service.

“Any changes to your Skype account such as your credit balance or your profile details might take a little while to be displayed”, it added. Some users said the outage affected the services across the world, including U.S., U.K., Australia and Ukraine.

Revealing that efforts are being made to reconnect users and restore full service, Skype said that its calling service was “fully restored” by around 10am on Monday morning. The outage affected both Mac and Windows users, plus those with the Android and iOS apps installed, but the Skype for Web client was functioning normally. We have detected an issue with the status settings of Skype.

In addition, said Microsoft, all the contacts of affected users would show as offline meaning they would not be able to call those people. “Instant messages are still being delivered as usual”.

Microsoft failed to mention exactly why Skype went down for the entire day, so we aren’t entirely sure if it was a security issue or just a general fault.

Down Detector, a website that monitors the running of consumer technology services, posted a map indicating the outage is focused on Europe and Japan. However, the problem also popped up in several European countries, Australia and the Eastern US. However, user complaints still continued to stream into the company’s Twitter feed.

“I only have 2 meetings planned for #skype today”.