Microsoft manages to recover most Sidekick data

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has good news for most Sidekick users: the company says it has recovered most of the data for T-Mobile Sidekick users who saw personal information accidentally wiped from their devices earlier this week.

Redmond also provided a few more details about what went wrong with the servers that stored the cloud-based data, which includes contact lists, notes, tasks, calendar appointments, photographs, and gaming high scores.

A number of Sidekick users complained of data loss last Saturday after a server crash at Microsoft Subsidiary Danger. At the time, Microsoft believed the data would be unrecoverable; however, by Monday, the company changed its tune saying some data recovery was possible. Now, it looks like only a small number of Sidekick users will suffer permanent data loss.

"We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage," Microsoft corporate vice president Roz Ho said in a statement. "We now believe that data loss affected a minority of Sidekick users."

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