Thankfully, Wednesday’s Artemis II launch went off without a hitch. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the same could not be said for its Outlook email service.
As an observer noted on Bluesky, a ground-based operator at mission control noted there was an issue with one of the astronaut’s Portable Computing Devices (PCDs).
“We suspect the issue with your PCD may be Optimus software,” said the operator. “We were able to connect to PCD-1. We can see it on the network. So, with your go, we can remote in and take a look directly.
Commander Reid Wiseman acknowledged the comment and said the following:
Yeah, go for it. And I also see that I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither of those work. If you want to remote in and check the Optimus and those two Outlooks, that would be awesome.
The silver lining is none of this was critical to the Artemis II mission. Still, it’s not a good look for Microsoft – the Artemis II launch was watched by millions, so it probably wasn’t great to have all of them listen in on a glitch with Microsoft’s software.
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