Comments on: Sidekick Owners Get Bad News — Phone Data Is Gone Forever

By: AnakondaRH

AnakondaRH — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:39:44 +0000

Wow… this is crazy… Then again, Microsoft at its best.

On a side note, 2005 Paris Hilton would have freaked out… assuming she managed to understand what “The Cloud” is…

Paris: Does this mean my friends are gone?
Bodyguard: Ermm… no. Only their phone numbers. They were in the cloud, which is now lost.
Paris: What were their phone numbers doing on a cloud? Were they sky-diving?
Bodyguard: Ermmm… no.
Paris: Does this have anything to do with “Global Warming”, whatever that means? Do you think that if I talk in public about global warming people will think I’m smart?
Bodyguard: Ermmm… possibly.
Paris: Never mind. I’m gonna make a perfume instead, and call it “Global Cloud”. Lemme call Nichole and tell her!! I’m so excited! *looks at phone* Wait… WHERE’S NICHOLE’S NUMBER??
Bodyguard: Ermm…

By: amber h .

amber h . — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:49:44 +0000

wow this suckss. i cant get on aim or internet. my data service never came back. everytime i try to go on it says i have to enter my t-mail password. i entered it and it kept saying it was wrong. so i changed it, and it would work on the computer but everytime i did it on my sidekick it would say it was entered incorrectly . i cant get on aim or internet . idk what to do >;O

By: msalt

msalt — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:36:39 +0000

@Virtuous: The lawyers are probably gonna go for more than free service, check this… http://sidekicklawsuit.com/

By: Virtuous

Virtuous — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:50:42 +0000

Microsoft should give every Sidekick owner a free myTouch 3G with 1 year of free data service. At MS there should be a string of resignations beginning with Steve Ballmer’s and Robbie Bach’s.

By: cr0ft

cr0ft — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:47:11 +0000

With all the available technology in data centers today to secure data – backups, snapshots, redundant storage – it really does indicate a massive level of failure to permit something like this to happen. I’m flabbergasted at the sheer level of incompetence it takes to fail to take backups and have multiple offsite ones at that, and even more so that their systems weren’t multiple redundant permitting them to upgrade their disk systems in stages.

In the usual course of things, cloud data should be a lot more secure than anything stored locally… but that is if the data storage systems and their setup have been designed by someone skilled and maintained properly.

Amazing level of fail from Danger and Hitachi here, I have to say.

By: collin

collin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:48:02 +0000

back up your data especially if it is running micro$hit windows

By: ziggy

ziggy — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:42:17 +0000

im going to personally hand deliver my sidekick to redmond and shove it into steve ballmers throat while i scream fuch u microd^ck as he dies a slow PAINFUL DEATH!!!!

By: AndyT

AndyT — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:18:24 +0000

Typical MS. I remember when they bought Hotmail a few years ago and immediately tried to move all users to their proprietary Exchange Server backend. They FAILED miserably and had to go back to Unix/Sendmail servers originally hosting Hotmail. They eventually made the move years later though. MS NEVER gets it right the first tiime NEVER. They are the least innovative technology company in history. All they do is copy, steal and/or buy other people’s tech. The only worthwhile thing i can ever remember them actually creating is the non-standard XHR object used in most Web Browsers today that enabled AJAX webapps. For all their billion$ they sure are one big Doofus Corporation.

By: bookmarc

bookmarc — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:39:03 +0000

This is not a problem for me since I always back up any web data I have to one or more locations, depending on how important it it to me. I only use my Sidekick for realtime communications. I recently set up my Skype business account to forward to my Google Talk number. This means that business calls to my business number get transferred to my sidekick or whereever else I choose–and it works. I just do not care about the notion that Tmobile is not saving my info permanently. It works for me and that is all I care about. If I get something that I need to save, I save it. End of story.

By: turn.self.off

turn.self.off — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:32:47 +0000

i suspect the idea is that you need to be very heavy handed with paper to really erase whats written on it fully.

as its a analog medium, one can figure out the content by partial leftovers.

with digital however, lose a crucial part (like say the format identifier) one have lost the content fully, or how if the controller board on a HDD dies, the whole drive is basically lost (unless you feel like going to a specialist recovery shop and pay them in blood to have them access the plates directly).

as for “as best we can” is nuts if the company do not provide the user to make a simple local backup…