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It needs to run a second process to send all your data back to Microsoft.
There’s a scene in Space Force where a flight controller can’t do something crucial because of a forced Windows update. I remember thinking “this is such a silly, cheap gag, there’s no way a space organization would use Microsoft”.
Well. I stand corrected.
Wait till I tell you many nuclear power stations and submarines run ancient versions of windows for their control software
Imagine having a nuclear meltdown because of windows
I’ve worked in more than a couple factories and fabrication shops. Everything was on XP.
I’m not saying you can’t run infra with a couple of old dells plugged in that break prod when they are cut off.
We don’t talk about that.
I do think that modern manufacturing or even shipping logistics stuff having not been touched in twenty years is saying something.
We had some stuff at work that was XP until the machines started dying. They were not sure how to get around it but one option was XP in a VM.
Also we have internal websites that only work in IE Mode, because modern browsers don’t render them properly. Its annoying mostly because even though Edge has an IE Mode, and you can add exception, it CONSTANTLY nags about "don’t you want to use Edge? Or removes the exception with an “add back” option.
Like no Edge, it still does not render, why ard you so fucking extra about this, just render in IE mode.
Why won’t you fix those internal websites? I wouldn’t think it is that hard? It is just html and css isn’t it?
Joke aside, it was the personal device of one of the crew members. Not NASA provided nor mission critical
Meanwhile the Chinese government have their own Linux variant Kylin which is developed as part of a national resilience and strategic initiative. It’s wild to me that in this day and age few governments will spend even $100,000 on open source expertise but they’ll throw billions at idiots like Microsoft because some politician was wined and dined by their sales people. If more people knew how broken the procurement system was and how their tax dollars were wasted on corporate welfare they would riot.
Its way too tin-foil-hat of me to bring up how Bill Gates was in bed with the shadiest world leaders and how that might influence these sort of decisions, right? I’m definitely just being a conspiracy theorist here.
I don’t think it’s too far fetched given the evidence we have that these people all hung out in the same social circles.
I heard they even had a special island where they liked to meet up. Allegedly.
It’s got a really nice ui
There’s something to be said for a computer that’s as dumb as a calculator.
They were troubleshooting a GoPro earlier too, lol. Was interesting, same problems up in space as we have down here.
Have you tried turning it off and then on again?
why would you want to have email on a spaceship? why do they need email on a spaceship?
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just use Teams
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Guess NASA didn’t want them writing SMTP rules while circling the moon.
