Sidekick Fiasco Could Be Costing Microsoft Millions
A lot of Sidekick customers are feeling the effects of the server outage that saw an unspecified amount of user data swallowed up by the cloud.
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.
But how, you say? Well, you know the way it's been T-Mobile that's been offering all the consolation prizes for this one? This is because when people signed their contracts, they were promised a certain level of service. Similarly, T-Mobile signed a service level agreement with Microsoft so it could guarantee customers a good service. With us so far? Good, let's move on.
Unfortunately for Microsoft, if the tipster is to be believed, T-Mobile has a pretty pricey SLA with Microsoft and Danger. We're not using the word pricey lightly here, folks. Word on the street puts the numbers at $700,000 per day for the period Microsoft and Danger couldn't guarantee 99.5 percent availability of Sidekick services. Electronista points out that this would mean Microsoft owes T-Mobile $9.8 million or more given the approximately two-week absence of Sidekick data. Now that's a lot of moolah.

Not to Microsoft it isn't
PS (I'm not serious - but I may still get flamed.)
Because sidekick is nothing but a pathetic junk from Sharp, it doesnt have much local memory for storage.
Don't cry too much for "poor" m$, they have more than enough fankiddies to buy billy boy's crap, that will compensate any lo$$.
As I always say: Microsoft - Quality To Five 2's.
What's sad about those posts as well is that half of the other words are usually misspelled, making the person seem even more like an angsty teenager with an axe to grind. They figure the more they use the "$" and any version of Microcrap, Microsux that's been driven into the ground, the more awesome and original they look.