Microsoft (Didn't) REALLY Fuck Up: Turns Out The Data Isn't Lost!

Update: Microsoft didn't lose the data.

I recently posted about Microsoft losing all the user data for Danger's Sidekicks.  It turns out the data was recovered.  This is an update, and you can read the original here.


Microsoft just announced that the data in fact is not lost (they were able to recover most to all of the information).  After testing the accuracy of the data and creating a restoration timeline, Microsoft will restore the data to the Sidekicks starting with users' contacts.

Apparently there was a system failure that caused data loss of the core data and the backup (which honestly totally blows).

Either way, it's good they were able to recover.

Microsoft REALLY Fucks Up: Looks Like SideKick May Be Gone For Good

So there are some things out there that are simply unacceptable.  This is one of them.


In today's day and age, data lossage is catastrophic.  All corporations duplicate or triplicate their backups to avoid possible data lossage because it is both important, and it's loss could be the end of the corporation's existence.


Microsoft clearly believed they could beat Murphy's law.  Clearly they couldn't.


If you have no idea what I'm talking about, Microsoft recently lost a large amount of data: the personal information stored on people's Sidekicks: aka their contacts, photos, calendars, etc.


Stuff like this cannot happen.  This is as though one day Google appologized that they lost 20% of users' emails and contacts.  THIS CANNOT HAPPEN.  Companies triplicate their backups of all data for this very reason, often keeping a copy or two off site (or out of state/country even) to avoid major catastrophe's.


Word on the street is that something went wrong during an upgrade, and now all the data is gone.


Sidekick is already falling apart as users are now switching to other devices/companies.  I doubt sidekick will ever succeed again after this failure.


If you have a sidekick and just lost your data from this, my sincerest apologies.

Update: Microsoft didn't lose the data.  For more information, click here.