Hector Ruiz certainly led a checked career as CEO of AMD, -- isn't that supposed to be checkered?

I thought it would take at least a month or two before the law suits got started.

@MRCUR, you're right, there is absolutely no excuse for this happening. As you state, there should have been backups made in case of a failure such as this. Moreover, this is why you have a contingency plan (which is inclusive of mission critical backup policies) in place before you make a system change (hardware or software.)

@TZK, I assume that the lawyers will find a way to name all parties involved (T-Mobile, Microsoft, Danger) as defendants.

Epic cloud computing FAIL. Also this has all the classic ingredients for a big time class action suit.

To sum things up, Cloud Computing = FAIL. Certainly not the utopia that it's been touted to be.

Moreover, what safeguards are in place to keep this thing from overloading and exploding like Li-Ion batteries do?

I was wondering too about the state of ATI's Linux support -- so that's good news.

@Paul, I was using AVG on a Win Vista and 7 machine. On the Vista machine, it would boot fast but run slowly at desktop for a for a few minutes because of a AVG background process. On the Win 7 machine, it would take a long time to boot (up to 70 secs) but run relatively fast when it got to desktop. I removed AVG from both machines and installed MS Security Essentials -- and the the performance problems disappeared on both machines. For instance, Win 7 boot-up time is now 20 secs. I like AVG, but over the years, it's become a bloated resource hog.

Back in the days of dial-up Internet, I used to think that way (didn't need a firewall or anti-virus.) My thinking was that I could never get hit with something because hackers were going after corporations with broadband not small fry like me with dial-up. Also, I kept my computers up to date with security patches and was very careful about my web browsing. I lasted many years in that state until one fateful day, I got hit. I had basically signed onto my ISP and walked away for a few minutes to take care of something. When I got back to the computer, I found that it was trashed.

That one incident, and having to spend a whole weekend rebuilding a system, caused me to never again run without a firewall and anti-virus protection.