Episode 291 | New Opportunities After Failures

The week AC & CJ reminisce about the NASA rover that did, DOS and loads of cloud news including Teams, Office, Security and (your favorite) Internet Explorer.

Show Notes

Banter

• NASA’s Opportunity Rover Mission on Mars Comes to End

News

Microsoft

• Teams outage: TM173756
• Re-Open-Sourcing MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0
• Announcing the new Security Engineering website
• Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use Internet Explorer anymore
• Microsoft is running bizarre commercials that seem to trash its own Microsoft Office 2019 suite
• Vasa (ship)

AWS

• AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon’s Operating Income

Google

• GOOGLE HIRED GIG ECONOMY WORKERS TO IMPROVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CONTROVERSIAL DRONE-TARGETING PROJECT

Other

• Employees Are Accessing More and More Business Apps, Study Finds

Picks
AC’s Picks

• the economically dubious space shuttle decision
• 81 Megapixel image of Tuesday’s moon

CJ’s Picks

• Apollo 11 Movie
• NASA Apollo 12 Moon Mission Onboard Camera

Guest Pick: Jeroen Huylebroeck

• Micromensen podcast