Very interesting details on Sidekick/Microsoft/Danger/T-Mobile data failure

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
Date: October 12, 2009 11:42:11 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Very interesting details on Sidekick/Microsoft/Danger/T- 
Mobile data failure


Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage

October 12th, 2009

Daniel Eran Dilger

Additional insiders have stepped forward to shed more light into
Microsoft's troubled acquisition of Danger, its beleaguered Pink
Project, and what has become one of the most high profile Information
Technology disasters in recent memory.

The sources point to longstanding management issues, a culture of
"dogfooding," and evidence that could suggest the issue was a
deliberate act of sabotage.

AppleInsider previously broke the story that Microsoft's Roz Ho
launched an exploratory group to determine how the company could best
reach the consumer smartphone market, identified Danger as a viable
acquisition target, and then made a series of catastrophic mistakes
that resulted in both the scuttling of any chance that Pink
prototypes would ever appear, as well as allowing Danger's existing
datacenter to fail spectacularly, resulting in lost data across the
board for T-Mobile's Sidekick users.

...

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2009/10/12/microsofts-sidekickpink-problems-blamed-on-dogfooding-and-sabotage/








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