I’ve seen a number of these hitting a less than public email address so that tells me there are probably a large number being sent out. Typical grammar issues abound in the subject and body, the alert came from and was emailed to the same address and of course included something you are suppose to run. Well do run, run away that is, Delete, Delete, Delete.

In one of the biggest blows to the promise of “Cloud” computing it appears an upgrade to the system has taken out customer data. In a total revelation of the service they state the data loss was caused by a single server failure. Where was the redundancy, the backups or recovery plan?

Sidekick customers, during this service disruption, please DO NOT remove your battery, reset your Sidekick, or allow it to lose power.

Updated: 10/10/2009 12:35 PM PDT

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.

We appreciate your patience as Microsoft/Danger continues to work on maintaining platform stability, and restoring all services for our Sidekick customers.

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. That said, our teams continue to work around-the-clock in hopes of discovering some way to recover this information. However, the likelihood of a successful outcome is extremely low. As such, we wanted to share this news with you and offer some tips and suggestions to help you rebuild your personal content. You can find these tips in our Sidekick Contacts FAQ. We encourage you to visit the Forums on a regular basis to access the latest updates as well as FAQs regarding this service disruption.

In addition, we plan to communicate with you on Monday (Oct. 12) the status of the remaining issues caused by the service disruption, including the data recovery efforts and the Download Catalog restoration which we are continuing to resolve. We also will communicate any additional tips or suggestions that may help in restoring your content.

We recognize the magnitude of this inconvenience. Our primary efforts have been focused on restoring our customers’ personal content. We also are considering additional measures for those of you who have lost your content to help reinforce how valuable you are as a T-Mobile customer.

We continue to advise customers to NOT reset their device by removing the battery or letting their battery drain completely, as any personal content that currently resides on your device will be lost.

Once again, T-Mobile and Microsoft/Danger regret any and all inconvenience this matter has caused.

Be warned of a very authentic looking email claiming to be from Microsoft saying you need to install an update patch for Outlook. Microsoft DOES NOT send out such notices. Do not click links in emails just because they look valid. Below is a copy of the email:

Microsoft has announced it will no longer be selling MS Money.

This is why Microsoft shouldn’t get into a Apple/Oranges marketing fight with Apple. I think it’s pretty easy to see Apple turned Microsoft whole marketing campaign right around on them and into an Apple marketing campaign.

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Microsoft will release Windows 7 Release Candidate 1, Build 7100, on April 10th to MSDN and other select users. This will be followed by a public release on April 20th. some additional news (rumor) that Microsoft has decided it will in fact have a second Release Candidate, RC2, the last week of May.