Microsoft recovers 'most, if not all' Sidekick customer data
By Vlad Savov 
posted October 15th 2009 4:45AM
posted October 15th 2009 4:45AM
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posted October 15th 2009 4:45AM
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Its not magic dust, its pixie dust. I cultivate it in the moist environment of my armpits and it is harvested by developers, developers DEVELOPERS!
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Why do I get the feeling that some data recovery company made a shitload of money?
Data recovery company = NSA. They have all our data.
This announcement is fishy. A few days ago they said all the data was almost certainly gone for good. No company would put out that kind of press release unless they were really really sure. I highly doubt they have recovered anywhere near 'most, if not all' customer data. Most likely what will happen is that some customers, maybe 51%, will get some of their data back (and perhaps not notice some of it is missing), Microsoft will call the problem solved, and the thousands without their data will be largely voiceless because the media would have moved on.
Well, except in this scenario: Company has no idea how much data is still there at all and can't figure it out soon enough for a much needed press release. Company decides to say they probably lost all the data, figuring if they don't then nobody will be any more mad at them than they already are, but if they do manage to get it back then everyone thinks they're heroes and moves on.
Catherine Zeta Jones will get your data back.
All I want to know is: Who screwed the pooch? What happened, and how and why did he do it?
I wanna see his faaaaaaaaaace!
What's a sidekick and why do we care? Like anyone uses one.
Hah except all the apple fanbois get some fodder... NOM NOM NOM I'm so smart I use apple! Nyah!
It is still unfathomable to be me that they don't keep data on the phone in flash memory. Absolutely unbelievable.
im glad i wasn't affected by having my data go away.
still, i wait to pre-order my Moto Cliq, i just wished some how engadget or some one found news about a new Android phone w/ a keyboard and a better processor that would hit T-Mobile (my wish is too much :(
What's a sidekick?
Do people actually still have those ancient things?
Yah because everyone needs a $700 phone. You sir are an elitist snob. And no I don't have a SK. I have a hacked G1 for my personal and a Touch Pro for work. But most people should recognize that not everyone needs a phone that can do everything and costs you a crap load out of pocket. The SK are for such people.
I can tell most of you have never worked with a SAN or even understand how it stores data.
Imagine a big ass RAID array, only with dozens or hundreds of disks and a few servers and a complex network controlling it all.
What likely happened was the equivalent of deleting the partition(s) on your computer and swapping out the motherboard, then realizing you didn't back anything up. A shitty situation to be sure, but not a situation that can't be undone through hard work and many stressful nights. The data was still likely striped across all of the discs, they probably just needed to "put the puzzle" back together by figuring out how the LUNs were created.
No magic dust necessary. Ballmer was standing over the team with a lazyboy in hand ready to go all ape on their sorry asses if they didn't recover the data. Because ya know chair throwing is how Steve rolls.
Or are as big of a lackey as iPhone users. Remember that there are idiots out there and they aren't all use Fruit Phones.
ah the saga ends... I wonder how their PR is feeling right now... Glad everyone got their data back, I'd be pissed if that happened to me
It's a trap!