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Even Artemis II Astronauts Have Microsoft Outlook Problems (www.wired.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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About seven hours into the flight of Artemis II, Commander Reid Wiseman experienced something many earthbound Microsoft users know all too well: his Outlook email stopped working.

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[–] 38 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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    • [–] 30 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    What kind of moron puts a Microsoft product on a spacecraft computer? These astronauts will be lucky to make it back to earth.

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    • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    The Orion capsule uses the Core Flight System (cFS) running on a Linux-based real-time operating system - specifically Wind River VxWorks for flight software tasks. Phew. At least nothing truly critical is running on Microslop.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    https://youtu.be/z4JL_lyjr3E

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Can Clippy plunge a toilet?

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