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Date: Thu Oct 22 2009 - 03:09:15 CDT

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http://news.techworld.com/storage/3204465/microsoft-chief-admits-sidekick-outage-hurt-cloud/

By John Fontana
Network World US
20 October 09

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer characterised the recent Sidekick data loss
episode as "not good", and said he believes all the data will be
recovered, but added that Microsoft will have to be more forthcoming in
explaining to enterprise customers why a similar situation won't occur
with Microsoft's online services.

"It is something we are going to have to address and explain to
customers our method and process and quality approach and what went
wrong in that case and how we are making sure that it does not happen
again," Ballmer said.

Ballmer spent part of his morning keynote at a Sharepoint conference
explaining how Microsoft plans to push the cloud version of SharePoint
and create options for users to run their applications and store data in
the cloud.

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