Comments on: Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft’s Windows Phone

By: John Dvorak reverses entire career, says Microsoft should copy Apple — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:26:12 +0000

[...] Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft’s Windows Phone Microsoft’s Pink/Danger backup problem blamed on Roz Ho Sun, Oracle save Microsoft’s Pink after Danger data disaster [...]

By: Microsoft’s backup problem blamed on Roz Ho — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:03:41 +0000

[...] Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft’s Windows Phone Microsoft’s Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing [...]

By: Lance Ulanoff and Robbie Bach explain why library size doesn’t matter for WiMo apps vs the iPhone — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:19:28 +0000

[...] Exclusive: Pink Danger leaks from Microsoft’s Windows Phone Microsoft’s Danger SideKick data loss casts dark on cloud computing 10 FAS: 9 – Troy Wolverton, Neil Cavuto, and the Apple Stock Scandal [...]

By: Monday Morning News - MacTalk Forums

Monday Morning News - MacTalk Forums — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:49:38 +0000

[...] should also be pointed out that the creator of the Sidekick phones, Danger, were purchased by Microsoft a while back. And they have been [...]

By: The story is always the same | meta/LPAR

The story is always the same | meta/LPAR — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:02:52 +0000

[...] 2009: Leaks indicate that the Danger OS is dying, with the Danger-based Project Pink phone to be replaced by Windows Mobile (of course), with some [...]

By: tundraboy

tundraboy — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:03:53 +0000

Re Danger server fiasco. If I were a MSFT stockholder, I would be be marching to Ballmer’s office right now, torch and pitchfork in hand.

Amaaaazing how this whole Danger acquisition results in ZERO value in the legacy end (Sidekick) and ZERO value in the lead end (Project Pink). That’s another half a billion (reportedly, since MS was mum about the acqui cost) down the infamous black hole of Redmond. Talk about the ability to make a spectacular nothing out of something.

By: davebarnes

davebarnes — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:08:11 +0000

Even better for the Pink (Danger) team.

“T-MOBILE AND MICROSOFT/DANGER STATUS UPDATE ON SIDEKICK DATA DISRUPTION
Dear valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers:

T-Mobile and the Sidekick data services provider, Danger, a subsidiary of Microsoft, are reaching out to express our apologies regarding the recent Sidekick data service disruption.

Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.”
Source = http://blogs.zdnet.com/cell-phones/?p=2280

By: enzos

enzos — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:37:50 +0000

The Macalope is usually just amusing but this week’s had me laughing: http://www.macworld.com/article/143233/macalope_mobile.html
..Which is funny because the Macalope remembers being told that Windows Mobile 7 was totally going to kick the iPhone’s ass up and down the street:
Apple iPhone Doomed To Failure — Windows Mobile 7 Plans For 2009 Leaked

That particular piece, which violates both the laws of logic and those of space/time, prompted the Macalope to respond at the time:

It’s amazing how future Microsoft products beat current Apple products time and time again, isn’t it? You’d think Apple would have just given up by now.

“Don’t get an iPhone! Wait! We’ve got something that will blow the iPhone away!” [fumble, fumble, sound of a chainsaw, sound of a cat howling, sound of a hammer, sound of three years passing] “Wouldn’t you rather have… this?!”

And what they reveal is a goat.

Not a figurative goat, a real goat. With a rotary-dial phone duct taped to it.

The goat is bleating plaintively.

By: Tim Anderson’s ITWriting - Tech writing blog » When the unthinkable happens: Microsoft/Danger loses customer data

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:32:29 +0000

[...] Further rumours of the poor state of Danger (and Windows Mobile) within Microsoft are in this RoughlyDrafted article. Technorati Tags: cloud,danger,t-mobile,microsoft,data loss,backup This entry is filed under [...]

By: The Mad Hatter

The Mad Hatter — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:40:31 +0000

Does anyone else think that “Pink Danger” sounds like a porn spoof of a Ian Fleming novel?

No, instead it reminded me a H. P. Lovecrafts novels and their servents, the shoggoths (shoggies).