Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work
2026-04-02 15:26 UTC
Replies (34)
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@me_myself_and_I@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 12:37
In fairness I don’t think Microsoft designed them to work in space. Maybe it’s their internet connection?
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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 22:03
The article leaves out that this was on Commander Wiseman’s personal tablet, a Microsoft Surface Pro and not any device associated with the mission. He sought tech support for internet connectivity issues on a PCD (personal computing device), which is a Microsoft Surface Pro. The ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ was a description of the issue he was having. The headline is implying that there are two machines running Outlook that don’t work. NASA detected that the PCD was actually on a network. It asked the commander for permission to connect to the tablet remotely so it could look into a problem with the Optimus software. “I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working,” Wiseman responded, per a clip shared by Niki Grayson on Bluesky. “If you wanna remote in and check Optimus and those two Outlooks, that would be awesome.” The source of the quotes and a better article: engadget.com/…/artemis-ii-crew-is-just-like-us-ne…
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@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 15:53
The question is do they have a Copilot?
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@faltryka@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 16:45
Why the fuck would you use windows in mission critical spaces.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-04-02 16:20
Why do they have _any_ Microslop software?
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@Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 2026-04-02 16:44
Nice April 1st. I mean that'd be almost as ridiculous as running nuclear subs on Windows, right? Long EOL'd versions at that, eh? *rustles papers* Oh.
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@Tuxman@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-03 12:33
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@404found@lemmy.zip 2026-04-03 01:54
No way in hell I would want to go to the moon nowadays. Technology these days is like having two left feet. Especially if AI is involved.
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@Ch3rry314@piefed.social 2026-04-02 20:01
The spacecraft that took astronauts to the Moon used the Apollo Guidance Computer, developed by MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory. ``` Clock speed: Approximately 1 MHz Memory: About 64 KB total Word size: 16-bit architecture Power consumption: About 55 watts ```
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@cenariodantesco@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 09:23
'you have two outlooks inside you, neither work and it will grow'
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@Strider@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 16:07
Haha! Space travel, meet rolling releases.
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@Noam_Calhoun@lemmy.today 2026-04-03 15:07
*Microslop Outlook
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@SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2026-04-02 18:52
Should have used women with pencils again instead of MicroSlop. https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/places-of-hidden-figures.htm
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@Airfried@piefed.social 2026-04-02 19:36
Not the best... outlook.
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@Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 2026-04-04 13:19
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@PK2@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 18:45
Product working as designed.
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@aMockTie@piefed.world 2026-04-02 17:15
[Archive link](https://web.archive.org/web/20260402151152/https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/).
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@Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 16:15
They didn't pay their subscription fees, obviously. Duh.
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@Stellar_n0va@lemmy.zip 2026-04-02 22:57
As expected
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@Lemminary@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 04:43
I also have one! And it doesn't work.
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@Brkdncr@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 17:23
I’m guessing it’s one of two things: It could be two shortcuts to outlook. One might actually be Outlook classic. Another issue could be a dreaded dual mailbox scenario that occurs when an hybrid on-premises user account gets a mailbox in exchange online before their on-prem account has its attributes created. It’s annoying to deal with and fix. I’m curious as to what the issue is and how they fix it. I would assume that latency and bandwidth are a big problem and they have WAN acceleration going on, which can cause some apps to bug out. I actually helped Riberbed identify and fix a bug with Exchange optimization that took 4 years to fix. The tech I worked with for about a year when we identified it called me up 3 years later to tell me himself that they fixed and closed it.
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@mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 21:01
So, just like here on Earth then.
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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-04-03 01:06
> I scanned through the next several minutes after this moment and didn’t hear them address the duplicate Outlooks again. So, I emailed the Artemis II communications team, who is definitely not busy today I’m sure, and asked: Can the astronauts check their email yet? > > I’ll update if I hear back.
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@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2026-04-04 15:15
Vibe coding, baby. Legit endangering our brave spacefarers.
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@Mwa@thelemmy.club 2026-04-04 13:07
probably the outlook code was vibe coded kek.
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@LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2026-04-03 02:27
I was fully expecting the "New" dogwater web based Outlook client to be borked but the fact that classic is borked too is so fucking funny
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@darkmogool@feddit.org 2026-04-02 20:04
xD
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@jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-03 14:36
Download Winhance. Fixed.
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@Chough@lemmy.zip 2026-04-04 14:25
I feel bad for them.
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@echodot@feddit.uk 2026-04-02 19:24
I've worked for a lot of companies throughout my life and admittedly I've never worked in the space industry, but practically everywhere just hosts our own damn email, why are they using Microsoft accounts?
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@1984@lemmy.today 2026-04-02 20:01
Maybe they should have looked out for themselves.
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@kokesh@lemmy.world 2026-04-02 20:46
I would not sit in anything running Microslop shit.
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@T00l_shed@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 00:56
Big deal, so do i and mine are also buggy messes
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@Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2026-04-02 17:04
(I only read the title) So that is within the allowed tolerance of working parameters bcs they never performed better during testing either.