Microsoft bought out Danger, the maker of the Sidekick phone.  One of the phone’s main selling features was that your data was stored on remote servers.  I know, how fucking handy is that, right?

Well, Danger wants everyone to know that they shouldn’t turn off their phone.  You see, if they turn off their phone, they’ll lose all of their data.  Why?  Well, it seems that there was a teensy weensy catastrophic failure with the data servers and all of the data is gone.

Microsoft could learn something about data storage from Google.  Those guys know how to write a letter of apology.