Comments on: Some Sidekick Users May Recover Data

By: Microsoft Begins Restoring Sidekick Data

Microsoft Begins Restoring Sidekick Data — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:21:47 +0000

[...] says that after several weeks of effort to recover data from backup, it’s ready to begin restoring Sidekick user data, beginning with personal [...]

By: The Planet - Kevin

The Planet - Kevin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:55:04 +0000

From a PR perspective, it’s much easier to say “Your data is probably lost” and be wrong than to build up hope and say “We might be able to get your data back” only to have to disappoint customers again if it’s doesn’t happen.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:09:25 +0000

Sounding more and more like the rumors of a SAN upgrade failure are true. Building a system relied upon by thousands of users in without redundancy is poor architecture at minimum. As for T-Mobile, It sounds like they were relaying what they were told, and when this failure got linked to Microsoft and their future revenue stream, well my guess is words were quickly exchanged, and resources were quickly freed.

By: Data Center Ops, Microsoft and T-mobile keep on floundering « The Server Room

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:41:31 +0000

[...] } This morning I was reading about some T-mobile Sidekick customers could recover data. I think Microsoft has the wrong definition of the term [...]