T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Microsoft’s Servers Crashed, And They Don’t Have A Backup

Wow. T-Mobile and Danger, the Microsoft-owned subsidary that makes the Sidekick, has just announced that they've likely lost all user data that was being stored on Microsoft's servers due to a server failure. That means that any contacts, photos, calendars, or to-do lists that haven't been locally backed up are gone. Apparently if you don't turn off your Sidekick and make sure its battery doesn't run out you can salvage what's currently stored on the device, otherwise you're out of luck: Microsoft/Danger is describing the likelihood of recovering the data from their servers as "extremely low". T-Mobile Sidekick users have been suffering from a major outage all week, and that issue apparently hasn't been resolved either.