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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: recursivelyenumerable on October 11, 2009, 05:02:54 AM

Title: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 11, 2009, 05:02:54 AM

"Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger's latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device - such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos - that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger. That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information. However, the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low."

wow.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: Great Rumbler on October 11, 2009, 11:56:23 AM

[youtube=560,345]1ytCEuuW2_A[/youtube]

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 11, 2009, 12:05:59 PM

So not only do they make shitty console hardware, they're able to screw up shitty servers too?  :lol :lol :lol

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: Himu on October 11, 2009, 12:09:51 PM

the last part of the Price is Right fail horn sounds kinda like one of my farts.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: Don Flamenco on October 11, 2009, 12:29:23 PM

link plx?   this sounds fucked. 

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: Rman on October 11, 2009, 12:35:48 PM

Don't they do routine backups?  All servers side companies do. Unless something happened with their backup servers too.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: MyNameIsMethodis on October 11, 2009, 12:36:17 PM

It's Microsoft, they can't even make a good video game system how do you expect them to have any brains?

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 11, 2009, 02:00:17 PM

my guess is it has less to do with the dangers of the cloud and more to do with the dangers of acquiring a company you don't know what to do with, but I dunno.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: AdmiralViscen on October 11, 2009, 10:44:35 PM

I thought they farmed out the maintenance to some Indian company or something and they fucked it up?

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: Joe Molotov on October 11, 2009, 10:46:35 PM

And people want to install beta copies of MS operating systems?

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC suspected
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 12, 2009, 12:30:13 AM

says the guy who's excited about Eoin Colfer's Hitchhiker book

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: MCD on October 12, 2009, 02:36:23 AM

in another dimension...

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/11/major-bug-in-snow-leopard-deletes-all-user-data

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on October 12, 2009, 03:48:09 AM

let's all just delete all our data!  format c:!  rm -rf /!  ri -r / -ea silentlycontinue!  whee!

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: Brehvolution on October 12, 2009, 11:40:51 AM

Wow.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: Brehvolution on October 12, 2009, 12:38:26 PM

I'm still curious as to why that stuff isn't kept on the phone. 

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: Fragamemnon on October 12, 2009, 01:52:30 PM

My wife's deaf sister (yeah its complicated!) and her deaf friends are totally freaking out about this. Sidekicks are still enormously popular with the deaf/Hard of Hearing community since the company was one of the first mobile device providers to make something that was useful for them.

Hope they clear things up. I was reading that MS did a SAN upgrade without a backout path? That's like something that a group of college interns would make a mistake on.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: Rman on October 12, 2009, 01:53:38 PM

Yeah, apparently they outsourced the SAN upgrade to a bunch of idiots.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: Bocsius on October 12, 2009, 01:55:53 PM

I didn't even realize Sidekick was still around. Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but I was under the impression the smart phone market was cornered by Blackberry and Apple.

Title: Re: Microsoft loses all Sidekick owners' data; TVC almost certainly to blame
Post by: MCD on October 16, 2009, 06:00:47 AM

http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/10/15/microsoft-restores-t-mobile-sidekick-users-data-2
http://liveside.net/main/archive/2009/10/15/most-if-not-all-sidekick-data-restored-says-microsoft.aspx

TVC wins.