Windows XP = Mission Critical Software

Don't believe it? Look at this:

Picture take from a TV screen of the Houston Mission Control Center. Look at the screen on the top right:

Close-up of the same screen on shown on TV a while later:

Doesn't the icons on the top right and bottom left remind you of something? ;)

Software being used in Mission Control. How much more Mission Critical can you get.

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2007
  During my daily reading this afternoon, the following post on blogs.msdn.com caught my eye. Apparently

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2007
  Yes, i won't buy Vista :)

• Anonymous
  June 10, 2007
  wow, that's amazing! I'm running the same os that nasa uses to launch its shuttles :D

• Anonymous
  June 17, 2010
  I'm actually amused by the commenter and the comments since no one seems to know what s/he's talking about. Windows XP is not "mission critical software" it's merely the shell or eye candy. Underneath it there's a realtime OS probably (solaris or unix) which does the actual processing. Happens that in truth "mission critical software" doesn't come with fancy GUIs - and for good reason, they're the to respond to  failures, calculating and handling lots of data etc not drawing some button. In short, if XP decided to take a break, they'd just resort to the old simplistic UI and everything keeps on going  normally.