Windows 98 in the news

[TheKrell]

Here's an article I wasn't expecting to read today!

The Mars Express spacecraft is finally getting a Windows 98 upgrade

The quality of data coming back to Earth is getting upgraded.

www.theverge.com

 

[FTA4PA]

Here's an article I wasn't expecting to read today!

The Mars Express spacecraft is finally getting a Windows 98 upgrade

The quality of data coming back to Earth is getting upgraded.

www.theverge.com

Hopefully they don't give it the Blue Screen of Death!

 

[TheKrell]

Hopefully they don't give it the Blue Screen of Death!

No kidding. As the article notes, at least they didn't upgrade to ME!

 

[navychop]

Maybe they’re moving to MS-DOS 3.11

 

[Foxbat]

Maybe they’re moving to MS-DOS 3.11

Naw, NASA has seen the light. Ubuntu LTS!

 

[harshness]

Naw, NASA has seen the light. Ubuntu LTS!

Ubuntu is nobody's favorite at this point. Inertia is pretty much all it has going for it.

I can see the applications being updated but I can't imagine how (or why) they would update the OS itself (unless they've been amassing service packs all along).

Microsoft has made a whole lot about the value of updating to improve security from external threats (that shouldn't be an issue here) but there are more active/unpatched bugs in Windows 10 or 11 than there ever were in Windows 98. Absent Microsoft networking and Internet access, Windows 98 (especially SE) was very stable.