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Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’ (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It’s a personal device. Nothing related to the mission.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 2 days ago

That's because the article left it out intentionally. It was on a personal surface pro.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 days ago

I'm sure it was nothing mission critical.

I hope.

[–] bryndos@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

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.