For the love of god, copilot going to try and take over this mission

I'm just flabbergasted that people at nasa put their signatures on paperwork where MS is involved in any of their systems. I thought intelligent people worked there.

I asked my Magic 8-ball what the problem is and it says "Outlook not so good"

Why the fuck are public things that are tied to a budget always have to waste money on Microsoft software while they can just use Libre alternatives 

Phenomenal. They chose the buggiest operating system for a spacecraft. Amazing.

Two outlooks, neither work?

Glad everything is normal aboard Orion!

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.

Kinda wild that we have such an abundance of processing power and memory that even space missions can load up with bloated software for the sake of "friendly" user interfaces.

As someone who has used Outlook a lot in an enterprise environment, I would not have believed that literal NASA astronauts use it for even the smallest task. Not because it can't accomplish the task, but because of how slow, buggy, and unreliable it tends to be, even when properly managed by a capable IT team. They have been in space less than a day and they're already wasting time and energy troubleshooting

In space no one can hear you scream

They use WINDOWS on this thing ? Do yourself a favour and install either Linux or one of the BSDs...

two instances of Outlook

pst/ost corruption incoming.

Wait until they start mapping the moon's far side using MS Paint. Tech support must stay on the line!

Outlook: redundant dysfunctionality

Well, that inspires confidence.

The Apollo 11 Guidance Computer had 4KB RAM and 72KB ROM, but the code was provably correct. How the mighty have fallen.

Ooh, did Mission Control tell them to turn the capsule off and then on again?

We use outlook st work.

It used to hsve switch "try new.." Now it switched to "use old.."

I opted old.

Mailto links open new outlook.

Shit's shit.

They must be using my work laptop, sometimes it runs outlook or teams in multiples.

Goddamn windows 98. Get Bill gates over here!

They're obviously holding it wrong.

One of them is Outlook from MS Office, the other is New Outlook (what used to be Outlook Express). The latter is a royal pain to fully disable, and once you've launched it, it takes over everything.

So what's happening is they're supposed to be using MS Office Outlook, but New Outlook is in the way. Hence the "neither one works" bit. I know how to solve this, have them give me a call.

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.

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.

"Houston, we have a Windows problem"

Well it was nice knowing the crew... If they're running windows they're doomed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ

Can I ask why people still use dedicated email software? I'm sure there's a reason. Maybe just familiarity, but I've never once opened my email inbox from anything other than a browser. It seems like a royal PITA.

Remoting into a computer on a space mission. Truly "the future is now, old man"

The average lunar distance is approximately 385,000 km (239,000 mi), or 1.3 light-seconds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance

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