Listen, they called the ship Integrity, not Availability; what do you want from a government contract?

https://www.404media.co/artemis-2-astronauts-microsoft-outlook-livestream/

Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work

In space, no one can hear you scream at Microsoft’s legacy software.

404 Media

@mttaggart It just completely blows my mind because the government already has its own email servers and clients, so why the frick are they even using that in the first place? They went from an already solved problem to adding half a billion new ones just because Microsoft told them it would be good?

NASA is the one government thing that is supposed to know to always always always focus on redundancy and reliability... What's next? Getting o-rings from a company that doesn't test them first?

@nazokiyoubinbou They got the O rings from Dunkin' Aerospace.

@bryanredeagle Lol. I wouldn't put it past them at this point...

I was hoping people would recognize the reference. A shuttle once exploded because of, of all things, o-rings. Tolerances on the high and low ends had been accepted too high and not fully tested in the real conditions they would be used in and thus the Challenger exploded. At least until recent times, NASA learned some very hard lessons about testing things very very thoroughly. I fear if those lessons are going to be relearned the hard way it could result in much more than e-mail problems.

@nazokiyoubinbou @bryanredeagle oh "IUnderstoodThatReference.gif"