The quote from MS itself (which I found at sidekick.com) was most, if not
all.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:44 PM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said early Thursday that it
has
been able to recover the personal data lost on many of T-Mobile USA's
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Mike Sloane wrote:
[This is going to put a crimp in the efforts to convince people that
computing in the cloud is a good idea. MS]
UPDATE: Microsoft Says It Has Recovered Lost Sidekick Data
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-710685.html
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) said early Thursday that it has
been able to recover the personal data lost on many of T-Mobile USA's
Sidekick users.
Many...that sounds like government math.
It would be interesting to see what 'many' means in this context.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at
Well, it's great that the data is being recovered, and likely will be mostly /
entirely recovered, but it's been gone for about two weeks now, and is being
recovered progressively. A two-week plus interruption in service is not a very
good recommendation for the cloud.
At 01:26 PM 10/15/2009,
On Oct 15, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Fred Holmes wrote:
Well, it's great that the data is being recovered, and likely will
be mostly / entirely recovered, but it's been gone for about two
weeks now, and is being recovered progressively. A two-week plus
interruption in service is not a very good
At 02:42 PM 10/15/2009, tjpa wrote:
Blaming the cloud for this disaster is very wrong. There is no reason
to believe that M$'s major competitors are as bad as managing their
infrastructure as M$ seems to be. M$ did not make proper backups. That
is not a cloud problem, that is a facilities
Some bloggers have speculated that this outage was engineered to put
the scare into us about cloud services. M$ is not ready to compete in
this arena and anything to slow down acceptance would certainly be to M
$'s benefit.
There's always a conspiracy theorist. MS probably can't produce its
Even if they did produce it, there would still be wackos that denied it was
real.
While not taking any blame from MS, this was outsourced to a third party who
did the deed. I'm thinking Google doesn't outsource it's could based stuff
like picasa etc? Or does it?
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:46
[This is going to put a crimp in the efforts to convince people that
computing in the cloud is a good idea. MS]
Posted: Monday, 12 October 2009 9:47AM
T-Mobile Sidekick Data Lost Forever
NEW YORK (AP) -- Owners of Sidekick phones, made by a Microsoft
subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA, may
