I sympathize with Sidekick users. Microsoft bought the back end and wrecked it, and there is no excuse at all for a company with billions of dollars in the bank to lose user data. Sidekick users are perhaps the least-deserving of Microsoft’s unreliability plague.

However, part of capitalism is competition. The user’s responsibility is to identify good and bad products and vendors and to reward the good ones with their business and avoid the bad ones. During the 21st century, Microsoft have shown they cannot even compete with the 20th century Microsoft that made XP, and the only thing they have invented recently is the botnet, which has cost the whole world billions if not trillions of dollars in lost Internet bandwidth alone. Their reputation is MUD and has been for years. If you put your eggs in their basket, you have no right to expect to get them back.

Possibly some good can come from this, and Microsoft users will get a clue. I won’t hold my breath.

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/.....-sabotage/

Whether deliberate or accident: it is a black mark for cloud computing.

Whether deliberate or accident is a double black mark on the “permanent record” of the total idiots in Redmond [Microsoft].