quickie question from an idiot (me)

JasX

Marty_J wrote: »

Having several backups is never a bad idea.

I don't think Microsoft are going anywhere any time soon though.

/bump

I stand by my earlier doubts


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8309218.stm

Microsoft says it has now recovered the personal data lost when its Sidekick servers suffered an outage on 13 October.

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"The outage was caused by a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back up," she wrote in an open letter to customers.
The number of customers affected was not released, but Sidekick is believed to have more than one million subscribers overall.
Microsoft says it has installed a "more resilient back-up process" to safeguard against a repeat incident.
The issue has been seen by industry experts as the largest failing for cloud computing in recent memory.
"This is the most spectacular loss of data on the web to date," Harry McCracken, editor of Technologizer.com told BBC News at the time.