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Has Microsoft Killed the Sidekick?
I hope no one here uses the Sidekick. This week, Microsoft announced that they had lost all t-mobile Sidekick user data including pictures, contacts, calendars and other information from their servers. Since the devices sync with the servers, the devices also lost the data. The Sidekick data services have been out for out over a week.
http://forums.t-mobile.com/tmbl/?category.id=Sidekick oops... |
My wife was using one that belonged to my daughter because her Blackberry died. Of course, she lost all of the data, but we happened to have a backup of her address book. We can re-upload it when we're sure it is ready. It's been down 9 or 10 days now..
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Originally Posted by Gargoyle
(Post 12610169)
oops...
WooW I'm amazed that this could happen in the first place... sh*t happens :confused: Looks like Microsoft really Royally screwed up... |
I saw this and just couldnt believe it. I cant remember how long ago it was that Microsoft took over the company that created the SideKick but they obviously did not handle the takeover very well.
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Totally amazing story and where the heck are the BACKUP tapes. Where is the hard drive restoration company?
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Let's see... how many times has Microsoft acquired a company only to suck it's blood and then kill it?? :eek:
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Out of the tragedy for those who lost their data, I am hoping that T-Mobile will have to launch some sort of massive "sale" to maintain market share, and thus I can lock into a good rate by converting my flexpay plan...
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Originally Posted by ElmhurstNick
(Post 12620557)
Out of the tragedy for those who lost their data, I am hoping that T-Mobile will have to launch some sort of massive "sale" to maintain market share, and thus I can lock into a good rate by converting my flexpay plan...
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Virtually every company does backups.
Virtually none of them actually test to make sure those backups are any good. Please if you do backups, actually do a restore too so you know if the data is good or not. In an effort to ease the sting of losing its Sidekick customers' data, T-Mobile is crediting a month's worth of data service to its Sidekick users, and issuing US$100 T-Mobile gift certificates to users if their data isn't recoverable. The cell service provider recently revealed that Microsoft's Sidekick cloud servers lost all of their data, leaving many users without their contacts, calendars and other personal information. This particular story goes on to say "We have made significant progress this past weekend, restoring services to virtually every customer," T-Mobile said. "Microsoft/Danger has teams of experts in place who are working around-the-clock to ensure this stability is maintained." Presumably those are not the same experts that led to the data loss. |
Good thing our clients keep us honest with daily restore requests...
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I'm not familiar with Sidekicks (I'm one of those luddites that just needs a phone, not a computer, in my pocket). (1) I'm sure they have a memory card slot and (2) I'm sure you can perform your own backup onto said-memory card or (2b) perform backups via bluebooth or USB to a desktop computer.
If not, then that's a product I certainly would not want. |
Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage
The sources point to longstanding management issues, a culture of "dogfooding" (to eradicate any vestiges of competitor's technologies after an acquisition), and evidence that could suggest the failure was the result of a deliberate act of sabotage |
Originally Posted by pdxer
(Post 12622136)
In response to comments that have characterized the story of Microsoft bungling Danger and Pink as too ridiculous to be true, the source wrote, "no one really grasps how dysfunctional Microsoft has become. Yes Microsoft did spend half a billion dollars for, as near as anyone can tell, absolutely nothing. Not exactly the first time. Asserting that it's a ridiculous supposition is in no way disproving it." |
Originally Posted by pseudoswede
(Post 12621885)
I'm not familiar with Sidekicks (I'm one of those luddites that just needs a phone, not a computer, in my pocket). (1) I'm sure they have a memory card slot and (2) I'm sure you can perform your own backup onto said-memory card or (2b) perform backups via bluebooth or USB to a desktop computer.
If not, then that's a product I certainly would not want. |
Originally Posted by Gargoyle
(Post 12622236)
And a quote from the article you mention:
(Danger is the company MS bought which ran the sidekick data centers. Pink is an MS zune/phone division.) |
Looks like T-mo is going to let loose of some cash...
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...-sued-sidekick |
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