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Sidekick Fiasco Could Be Costing Microsoft Millions

Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 4:56 pm
by Sabre
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If it's any consolation – okay, so it's probably no consolation at all – this is a very expensive 'woopsie' for Microsoft. A tip sent to Mobile Crunch reports that the outage could have cost Microsoft as much as $700,000 per day.
Sucks to be them!

Re: Sidekick Fiasco Could Be Costing Microsoft Millions

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:43 pm
by complacent
I had read that some of the folks from the Danger side of the house had intentionally caused the failure. Either way ouch.

Re: Sidekick Fiasco Could Be Costing Microsoft Millions

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 2:00 pm
by Sabre
complacent wrote:I had read that some of the folks from the Danger side of the house had intentionally caused the failure. Either way ouch.
Now that would be an interesting law suit then!

Re: Sidekick Fiasco Could Be Costing Microsoft Millions

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 7:40 pm
by Mr Kleen
complacent wrote:I had read that some of the folks from the Danger side of the house had intentionally caused the failure. Either way ouch.
:shock: