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’
2026-04-03 10:35 UTC
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@LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip 2026-04-03 16:30
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.
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@mech@feddit.org 2026-04-03 11:36
Imagine training your entire life to become an astronaut, and then you finally get to leave earth's orbit on a historic mission... But you still have to deal with Microsoft bullshit.
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@db2@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 12:23
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.
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@Triumph@fedia.io 2026-04-03 13:39
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.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-04-03 11:31
"Houston, we have a Windows problem"
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@JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2026-04-03 11:54
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zpCOYkdvTQ
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@expr@piefed.social 2026-04-03 12:45
Nah, microslop is a great name, especially because they throw tantrums about the name. It's very descriptive of what they have become.
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@Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 13:14
The difference between MicroSlop and Micro$haft or Crapple is that Microsoft is actively slopifying their product. And this isn't just some PC vs Mac slapfight where people are coming up with insulting names, Microsoft actively bragged about pooping out 30% of code with AI and we have MONTHS of news articles about them fucking up their updates even more than usual (and I've been supporting MS products for close to 2 decades). There's a reason MicroSlop responded to that and not Micro$haft. Because every big company gives their customers the shaft, but not many are actively sabotaging their product to quite the same extent as they are, so the (accurate) name really hurts the company's brand because it's an accurate description of their current output.
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@Triumph@fedia.io 2026-04-03 13:42
I've always hated that kind of thing. There's a presumption in it that "you think so, too" and fuck you don't tell me what I think.
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@PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2026-04-04 03:30
I agree with you on all fronts. It's super cringey, no matter how apt of a description it may be.
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@Zorque@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 13:33
Or that they're just very insecure and shortsighted and think that any negative effects on their current numbers are because of something as banal and petty as name calling instead of anti-consumer practices that drive customers away.
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@village604@adultswim.fan 2026-04-03 13:39
That's because the article left it out intentionally. It was on a personal surface pro.
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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-04-03 13:48
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.
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@CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2026-04-03 23:39
Well it was nice knowing the crew... If they're running windows they're doomed.