Ballmer: Sidekick outage ‘not good’

20.10.2009

BPOS, however is not run on the same infrastructure that hosted Sidekick, which was operated by Microsoft’s Danger subsidiary and was not running on Microsoft software or its Azure cloud platform.

Customer confidence in online services generally has been taking a flogging lately. Google has had a number of notable outages, including since March 2009. Of course, the Sidekick outage resulted in lost data at first. Microsoft has begun to recover some of that , cand the process is ongoing.