Why in the everliving fuck would NASA put ANYTHING Microsoft into a spacecraft?

Space Force TV show continues to fulfill the prophecy.

If only there were low-bandwidth, straight-forward, well tested email clients.....

"NASA says they'll remotely connect to the computer to see what the problem is."

'Hello, this is your NASA certified Microsoft certied tech support, you need to send us gift cards to unblock your computer"

Also known as "nominal outlook performance"

It seems you have problems with running your multi billion dollar rocket. Would you like me to help you with that?

The rare occasion when "It's not rocket science!" means it's harder.

Imagine being literally off the planet and still be expected to check your work email.

Wtf do they need email for in space

Why would you not use internal NASA programmed software? Oh wait, we're beyond that now, we just ask Claude to vomit up a mess from its exabytes of source code and vibe our way to the Moon!!!

This is just… so perfectly emblematic of where we are as a society.

You would think that the absolute basic, minimum requirement for taking something on a space mission is that it complies with open standards.

If you have standards compliant programs, it's easy to set up a back-up client in case the primary doesn't work. If your email is "Outlook" and you are tied to the outlook server and something breaks, there's your single point of failure. Sucks to be you.

They say Microslop CoPilot is already on the case.

Let this be a lesson about putting windows OS on space equipment.

See? They're just like us!

Who the f permits taking unverified software on a space trip?

Microsoft has always been questionable at best but ever since Steve Ballmer left, is been incredibly shit.

Microsoft, because sucking only on one planet isn't enough..

The Apollo 13 movie sequel will be wild...

screw outlook? WTF where is thunderbird when you need it.

Have they tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?

embarrassing.

I never would have thought that astronauts could be so relatable.

Shoulda installed Thunderbird

Don't worry, the Microsoft spyware telemetry will tell them what went wrong.

What a surprise. Microslop

I give them a 45% chance of coming back

Maybe someone should introduce them to PINE and SMTP and MIME.

They need to open the event viewer now, which takes 2 minutes.

So they're not only using Microslop in offices, but also on space missions...? Gee, I wonder why they've been failing to return to the Moon for 50 years...

TCP/IP?

... it would be pretty funny magnificent if the engineers would (have to) talk them through how to deMicroSlop themselves & install foss OS & foss apps.
They have more than enough time.

I miss BlackBerry