I wonder whether the skype team has heard of the "rollback" concept. You know - you roll out new code, it doesn't work - so you roll back to the old version? As of this morning, I'm still not connected to skype (nor are any of the people I normally talk to via skype). There's a client update available, but it doesn't help. This long an outage is a really, really bad thing for them - I'm going to have to start looking for alternatives for the podcast at this rate.

Update: Well - skype finally signed in at 9:40 AM. I only see 2 people online, and I know one of them did the update - so I presume that the client update is mandatory.

Update: Well, that was short-lived. As of 9:50 AM, it's back to "connecting". Looks like skype's troubles are far from over.