Although it is Windows XP have received updates and security patches since April 2014, are still present and running in the most unexpected places, including hospitals, government computers, or, more recently, in a spacecraft simulator.
The last such discovery comes from him French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who observed that the 15 old operating system feeds one simulator of the Soyuz space ship in Russia.
It all started with a video posted on Twitter that revealed an issue the simulator was experiencing while using it. Pesquet, looking from outside the Soyuz simulator, noticed something a little unexpected on the computer screen that powers all the spacecraft's systems. Had one wallpaper of Windows XP, which was a strong indication that the simulator was running an operating system ages 15 years old.
Of course, this does not necessarily mean that Windows is to blame for the problems, but if an unsupported software is running on such a device then there's a good chance it's to blame.
On the other hand, it is most likely that the Russians are not connected to the internetnetwork those Windows XP systems and that's why they're still running.
See a video below with the simulator below:
When your spacecraft does this, you know it's not a good day... pic.twitter.com/cYP0pDp6as
- Thomas Pesquet (@Thom_astro) February 2, 2016
