Microsoft Recovers Nearly All Lost Sidekick Data

It turns out Sidekick users will get “most if not all” of their data back, Microsoft announced today. The company now believes that only a minority of users were affected by the blackout. Until now, the company had painted a much bleaker picture, saying Saturday that though it would try to restore the data, “the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low." Sabotage was not to blame, notes TechCrunch.

“The outage was caused by data loss in the core database and the back-up," said a Microsoft statement. "We rebuilt the system component by component, recovering data along the way. This careful process has taken a significant amount of time, but was necessary to preserve the integrity of the data.” (More Sidekick stories.)