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In article <1ff08222-0588-453b-b262-8b128cfbf200
@b3g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
blinkingblythe02@gmail.com says...
>
> YIKES! The iPhone suddenly looks real good about now
>
(Yes, I know this is probably one of the idiot iPhone fanboys posting
about this, but I still feel compelled to comment.)
I find it hard to determine whether this is sheer incompetence on the
part of the ass-clowns at Microsoft, or whether it was intentional since
the Sidekick ran on NetBSD and Java, both of which compete with
Microsoft technologies.
Either way, it doesn't look good. Either way, I hope T-Mo is gearing up
to sue Microsoft into oblivion.* I find it extremely hard to believe
that they weren't keeping multiple redundant backups of customers' data
since purchasing Danger, I'm sure that M$ extends that courtesy to users
of M$ services based on M$ technology. Meanwhile, I guarantee that T-Mo
will bear the brunt of the fallout, because people don't pay Microsoft
directly for the devices or the service.
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/0...rs-Backup-Data
>
> "T-Mobile's popular Sidekick brand of devices and their users are
> facing a data loss crisis. According to the T-Mobile community forums,
> Microsoft/Danger has suffered a catastrophic server failure that has
> resulted in the loss of all personal data not stored on the phones.
> They are advising users not to turn off their phones, reset them or
> let the batteries die in them for fear of losing what data remains on
> the devices. Microsoft/Danger has stated that they cannot recover the
> data but are still trying. Already people are clamoring for a lawsuit.
> Should we continue to trust cloud computing content providers with our
> personal information? Perhaps they should have used ZFS or btrfs for
> their servers."<snip>
Oh, give me a break, typical /. crap. The cloud isn't the problem, the
service provider is the problem, and I DON'T mean T-Mobile, I mean
Microsoft.
> Not to mention that users now have to hear about Microsoft/danger/
> pink/stink or whatever babbling though their heads while they are
> scared to death about their important docs or whatever. There will be
> gnashing of teeth, there will be pitchforks held, and a huge lawsuit
> over this fiasco
I'm sure there will be gnashing of teeth, and Microsoft deserves to get
sued. If they were trying to kill off the Sidekick, this was THE WRONG
way to do it.
Meanwhile, as I understand it, most of the pre-Microsoft engineers had
left Danger long before this... and the Next Big WinMo Upgrade is
nowhere near finished... I suspect things are going to be interesting at
M$, at least for the foreseeable future.
**SJS
*OK, "Oblivion" is the wrong word. M$ is huge; they aren't going
anywhere. Still, I think T-Mo has grounds to go after them, and I think
T-Mo's Sidekick users probably also do.
--
Steve Sobol, Victorville, California, USA
sjsobol@JustThe.net 
Re: =MEGA FAIL= T-mobile Sidekick servers los *all* data, phones don't store data localy, and company urges customers to not turn off or reset their phones! 
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