Our WFBs will claim that I'm picking on M$, but really I'm not. Ask any late-night comedian about how easy it was to make President jokes last year vs this year. I really would have nothing to say if M$ were not fouling up again and again and again.
"Contacts, calendar entries, photographs and other personal information of Sidekick users has almost certainly been lost for good following a service disruption at Sidekick provider Danger, the Microsoft subsidiary said on Saturday." http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173457/microsoft_loses_sidekick_users_personal_data.html "it appears from initial speculation that the data was lost because they attempted to upgrade a storage array without backing it up first." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101100109.html Note that M$ did not lose *some* of *some* user's data, they lost *all* of *every* user's data. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
