BA aside, it is rather shocking that such an unmitigated disaster happened. Imagine if you were a T-Mobile user. Imagine if you were T-Mobile, to be faced with this after having trusted the largest, most experienced software company in the world. Shocking that there were absolutely no functioning backups (!). Zero. Nada. Sufuri. Microsoft...sheesh! Talk about imperfect timing (right after the Windows Mobile 6.5 launch).

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

am sure BA dont run their flights on MS Operating Systems, plus they
have an outstanding record of one fatal incident so far. imagine a
pilot getting a BSOD .

On 12/10/2009, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
> An ongoing disaster for users. Surely Microsoft and T-Mobile must be singing
> the blues.
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/11/sidekick-failure-rumors-point-fingers-at-outsourcing-lack-of-ba
>
>
>> Why there weren't any backups -- even older ones -- that could've been
>> used
>> as a restore point is totally unclear, so we're hoping Microsoft has the
>> stones to come clean for the benefit of an entire industry that wants to
>> understand how to make sure this never happens again.
>
>
> Saidi
>
> <tongue_in_cheek>
> With BA's giant software migration (mentioned in another skunks-ke post),
> would you feel safe flying BA?
> </tongue_in_cheek>
>

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