@chadwahl@nicholashutfilz From memory a chap by the name of Edward Hall ran the fde team at my work place. Whatever he is doing now, no doubt he is very successful.
@jake_zuckerman The Herman Miller Aeron Chair, which is basically ubiquitous in corporate America, is sitting right about $2200 with tax. I don’t have a problem with the city’s leaders having the same chair as thousands of corporate workers in Northeast Ohio.
@jake_zuckerman Hate gov waste as much as anyone, but you should check what office chairs cost. Those prices aren't unreasonable....you might be surprised.
NASA pays $100M for Microsoft 365 licensing across the agency. They standardized every system on Microsoft. They put Microsoft Surfaces on the Orion spacecraft as the crew's personal computing devices.
And the first technical crisis of humanity's return to the Moon was Reid Wiseman radioing Houston to say he has two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one works.
Mission Control's response? "With your go, we can remote in and take a look." The same exact workflow your company's IT helpdesk uses when you submit a ticket on a Monday morning. Except the user is traveling at 4,275 mph, 30,000 miles from Earth, and the Wi-Fi situation is considerably worse.
This spacecraft survived hydrogen leaks, helium leaks, a faulty heat shield, and a broken toilet. Outlook broke anyway. The toilet actually got fixed faster.
The real story here is that Microsoft has achieved something no other software company in history can claim: a support ticket from lunar transit. Their enterprise sales team should frame this. "Battle-tested in space" is a positioning statement most B2B companies would mass murder for, and Microsoft accidentally earned it because Outlook crashes everywhere, including orbit.
Outlook remains the only software in human history that performs identically whether you're in a cubicle in Redmond or aboard a spacecraft bound for the Moon. Universally, reliably broken. And we keep buying it anyway.
China's anti-stealth radar detects the presence of stealth aircraft by exploding, thus alerting defenders that a stealth aircraft is definitely in the area.
"You know where red tape is most egregious?... Blue states where no one can build," says Acting @CEA47 Chair @YaredPierre on housing.
"Blue states... are riddled by red tape and bureaucrats that are preventing construction."
President Trump is committed to fixing it.
Palantir is honored to contribute to the turning of the tide.
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