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Microsoft, T-Mobile Cell Phones Loose All Data

13 Tuesday Oct 2009

Posted by Dagny Gromer in Computers

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cell phones, Computers, microsoft, t-mobile

I had trouble catching my breath – swine flu? asthma? NO, uncontrollable laughter! It seems that Microsoft’s data center that was storing the data for T-Mobile Sidekick phones lost all the data folks entrusted them with. Why do I find this funny? Because it’s Microsoft, a company I have come to detest and despise. At my job I have to deal with their crappy products. The Microsoft subsidiary at fault is named “Danger”. I’m not making this up. Sort of like depositing your money at a bank called “First National Defunct”.

This did not happen to the Apple iPhone, it did not happen to Verizon cell phones. Nor to Google’s gmail, calendar, or online documents. It was Microsoft that failed.

To those users who suffered the data loss, I’m not laughing at you. It surely sucks. Choose a reliable vendor next time you store your data in the cloud.

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Microsoft Admits Vista was a Joke

18 Sunday Jan 2009

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Discovered by Tombo: Vista a Joke

Time to get a new computer; save on electronics here.

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo

02 Saturday Feb 2008

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Computers, google, microsoft, Software, yahoo

This NYT article starts with the sentence “Oh, how the mighty have fallen.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/technology/02nocera.html?_r=1&ex=1359608400&en=ec9043c95905f667&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin
A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is – New York Times via kwout

My own take is this is a desperate act, an admission that Google is dominating Microsoft in the state of the art area of online or so called “cloud” applications. MS, of course, still owns the desktop 😦 especially in larger organizations.

I don’t think this merger would work, even if it gets by the EU regulators who have seen MS as being anti-competitive in the past. The US regulators have been either asleep or for sale regarding MS’s behavior. These companies have very different cutures and technology bases.

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