Turns out our source had it right: Microsoft engineers who worked on the Danger/Sidekick meltdown have been able to recover “most if not all” of the data that was lost during last weekend’s catastrophic server failure.
In a statement, Roz Ho, Corporate VP of Premium Mobile Experiences addresses the unfortunate T-Mobile Sidekick customers and apologizes for the massive fail:
T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup
Microsoft to restore remaining Sidekick contacts this week, other stuff ’shortly thereafter’
Microsoft recovers ‘most, if not all’ Sidekick customer data
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Goodbye, CrunchGear.
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