Not owning one of the affected phones, I just have to laugh at this one. BTW, isn't "Microsoft incompetence" a redundancy?
Scott Granneman wrote: > Did you guys see this? > > http://mashable.com/2009/10/10/t-mobile-sidekick-data/ > > "There’s bad news for Sidekick users today: T-Mobile has announced > that it was unable to recover Sidekick data after a server failure at > Microsoft subsidiary Danger. This means any data not stored on your > Sidekick but residing in the “cloud” has been lost. > > Sidekick users are advised to keep their devices powered up and not > conduct a reset or remove the battery: a power-down would mean any > data still on the phone is lost. T-Mobile will provide an update on > the situation on Monday, but things are looking very bleak indeed. > > In T-Mobile’s words: “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.”" > > You guys know I love the cloud, but I back my stuff in the cloud up > locally too. And this would never happen on an iPhone, considering > that you sync your data on it with iTunes. > > But more importantly, this really exposes Microsoft's utter > incompetence. I mean, really. > > Scott > -- > R. Scott Granneman > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > > "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were > to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government > would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be > administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you > must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the > next place oblige it to control itself." > ---James Madison, Federalist 51 > > > > . > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
