Skype is down today, but is it out?

Today, December 22nd and Skype has been completely down for over 8 hours.  Why?

Do you Skype? I do. I use it to communicate with people in the US, and with people overseas. Clients, and contract employees.

Want to Instant Message? Skype can do that.

Want to voice chat? Skype can do it.

Want to Video Conference, Skype can do that as well.

One of my favorite new uses of skype though is for screen sharing. For example, I make a new site for someone, and need to train them how to use it.  If we both have skype (or if they quickly setup a free skype account) then they can share their screen with me, and in just a few minutes I can watch as they interact with the new site, coaching them though it all the way.

But, today I can do none of it because of the Skype outage.

Will I give up on Skype. Nope. Hopefully by tomorrow they will be back n full force.

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