Do you work for Microsoft? I just have to know. I mean, this is a joke post, right? a system failure that created data loss in the core database and t

Do you work for Microsoft? I just have to know. I mean, this is a joke post, right? a system failure that created data loss in the core database and the back-up. We rebuilt the system component by component, recovering data along the way. MS has to recover the data, hard drive by hard drive, like forensic scientists at a freaking crime scene, reconciling the corrupted backups with the corrupted originals, trying to piece together the real data. We're going off of the press releases by the two companies involved, chum. Microsoft's partner was apparently so pissed at Microsoft's incompetence that it threw up its hands and said, "Well, MS, we're just going to tell them what happened. Deal with it." And that's what most of the news stories were based off of. And, frankly, it's pretty on-target. If they had or didn't have backups, the forensic data recovery off of physical disks would take about as long as whatever ad-hoc process they're apparently using to reconcile the corruption in live and backup data. So I don't think there's any way a reasonable person would "get fed up" with the "MS backlash", as it's not based on "nothing more than rumors" but the corporations' own statements.