We reported the other day that Microsoft (or rather the subsidiary Danger) managed to lose all data for T-Mobile’s Sidekicks in a server failure. The Sidekicks rely heavily on these servers, as they store everything from contacts to calendar and photos there. Hence, the failure was a disaster for both T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger.
Today in a rather surprising turn of events, Microsoft announced that they have managed to recover ‘most, if not all, customer data.’ In the press release Microsoft states that they will start the recovering shortly, starting with the contacts data.
The press release also sheds some light on what caused the problem. Apparently the problem ‘[w]as caused by a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up.’
It looks like this disaster got a happy ending after all.
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