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Windows in a shuttle computer is the most disappointingly dumbass thing NASA has done yet. I say yet because if they’ll do something that dumb it clearly needs to have a glass ceiling.
It’s a personal device. Nothing related to the mission.
I guess that’s a little better, except that it’s still in there. Old NASA would have never let it on board in any capacity.
Doesn’t seem to be what this article says
To some readers, even choosing Outlook as a part of a spacecraft’s communications portfolio would seem to be an anomaly. However, it is a standard part of the “Commercial Off-The-Shelf” (COTS) software astronauts use for their day-to-day operations.
To be clear, the spacecraft and primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software. COTS just complements this with a friendly layer, like Windows and Outlook, so astronauts can check schedules, indulge in personal communications, and so on, in a familiar way.
Sounds like Microsoft products are running on the same hardware as critical systems are
That’s because the article left it out intentionally. It was on a personal surface pro.
If you intentionally misinterpret it like you are trying to lawyer some cracks in the story, then yeah it does.
Seems pretty clear to me from the “…primary flight systems will run on specialized radiation-hardened hardware and rigorously maintained software” that they’re separate systems.
Begging for a blue screen of literal death.
It’s probably not as bad as failing to check you’re operating within the range of component’s proven environmental test limits.
That said, I’d love to see the system test scenarios they use to determine how it performs during an unexpected attack from their own OS provider.
Imagine training your entire life to become an astronaut, and then you finally get to leave earth’s orbit on a historic mission…
But you still have to deal with Microsoft bullshit.*Microslop
It’s an accurate name. The company has explicitly told us that they are a slop-first cloud company.
I’ll probably attract downvotes for this, but I find ‘Microslop’ as cringeworthy as old staples like Micro$haft or Crapple.
Like, yeah, they’re shitty companies. But calling them childish names just comes across as petty and insecure, kind of like when Trump gives someone a dumb nickname.
Nah, microslop is a great name, especially because they throw tantrums about the name. It’s very descriptive of what they have become.
The difference between MicroSlop and Micro$haft or Crapple is that Microsoft is actively slopifying their product. And this isn’t just some PC vs Mac slapfight where people are coming up with insulting names, Microsoft actively bragged about pooping out 30% of code with AI and we have MONTHS of news articles about them fucking up their updates even more than usual (and I’ve been supporting MS products for close to 2 decades).
There’s a reason MicroSlop responded to that and not Micro$haft. Because every big company gives their customers the shaft, but not many are actively sabotaging their product to quite the same extent as they are, so the (accurate) name really hurts the company’s brand because it’s an accurate description of their current output.
I can see that argument, sure. The fact that they asked people not to use it suggests it is having some effect on their brand.
Or that they’re just very insecure and shortsighted and think that any negative effects on their current numbers are because of something as banal and petty as name calling instead of anti-consumer practices that drive customers away.
Microstiff
nasa is about to remote into the computer
I’ve dealt with slow RDP sessions while fixing servers in the past, but the lag on this connection must really suck.
At least while they’re in orbit you’d be looking at a few hundred ms of latency (due to satellite to ground station bounces). If they need to RDP while at the moon, it’s going to be a couple of seconds latency
“Houston, we have a Windows problem”
“Outlook is looking bleak, I’m seeing double.”
