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The sucky part about T-Mobile's Sidekick disaster is that it wasn't their fault. And as much as I hate to say it, MSFT is to blame.

Posted by Mop (231 lbs) (aka rburriel) Oct 13 '09, 08:58

They own Danger (the Sidekick maker) now. They should have known better than to continue housing all Sidekick data on ONE SERVER with NO BACKUP. What the FUCK, Microsoft? Smells an awful lot like sabotage, except it makes no sense.

Mop

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Hey, they named a really, really big bomb after you -- (link) - decline Oct 13, 09:00 1
- Heh... penetrator. -- nm - Mop (231 lbs) Oct 13, 09:15
I'm constantly amazed when large scale enterprises fail to do the most basic systems administration tasks - oblique Oct 13, 08:59 2
- I'm not. Huge organizations, no matter how high profile or seemingly important, are still run by fallible human beings. -- nm - con_carne Oct 13, 09:15 1
  - It's not rocket science though, it's pretty much the bread and butter of this company (in this case) - handling customer data -- nm - oblique Oct 13, 09:17
Sidekick victims offered $100 T-Mobile gift card, 1 month of free data and maybe a free phone (hopefully not a new Sidekick). - Mop (231 lbs) Oct 13, 08:59

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The sucky part about T-Mobile's Sidekick disaster is that it wasn't their fault. And as much as I hate to say it, MSFT is to blame.

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