[clug] Stories of Microsoft technical meltdown: T-Mobile Sidekick/Danger 'Hiphop', all data lost

[steve jenkin]

I found these two pieces sent by a friend, completely gob-smacking.
Thought I'd share my amazement with you all.

This saga ended up with a 7+ day service outage (for T-Mobile Sidekick
and possibly a Telstra service) and loss of all customer data.

There are dangers for commercial services run 'in the Cloud' by a
third-party. Sure there's an SLA, but what's it worth when you business
is gone?

BTW: For me, this makes the performance of Google & Android look
stunning (as in outstanding).


"Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage"

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/12/microsofts_sidekick_pink_problems_blamed_on_dogfooding_and_sabotage.html>



"Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft's Windows Phone"

<http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/09/exclusive_pink_danger_leaks_from_microsofts_windows_phone.html>

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