What we think about it:
LystAP - "Let’s hope these work out better than the last batch."
Hilldawg4president - "If there's one thing that's pretty consistent with new tech, it's that it gets better over time."
Little709 - "Except home printers"
mackinoncougars - "It’s just lives at stake. No biggie"
somasmile42 - "Yes. That's why there's lots of scrutiny and numerous rounds of testing before approving for use in a live situation..."
thatguy425 - "That’s the whole point of testing them."
morbob - "I want these goggles for skiing"
Healthy_Jackfruit_88 - "My dude, trust me, you don’t."
buttfunfor_everyone - "That was the last time around and (from my understanding) they’ve been working to improve user experience to make them actually helpful and less taxing on the user. I believe that contract w the gov was void until those issues had been fixed."
Healthy_Jackfruit_88 - "https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-will-deliver-improved-hololens-combat-goggles-to-army-testers-this-month-211521914.html"
teryret - ""Hang on guys, can't breach the door right now, goggles have gone down for another fucking update.""
MrGoober91 - "Getting a BSOD in combat. Lmaooooooooooo"
Impotent_Admin_1913 - ""Please renew your Microsoft Combat Subscription.""
aldodapache - "If I had a dollar for every time outlook for iPhone decided to update in the middle of a workday. Or Teams decided to not work right."
burningcpuwastaken - "nothing like needing to get halfway across the chemical plant for your next meeting in 10 minutes, only to find that your Windows laptop suddenly decided it's update time and now if you close the lid, you bork your install and your unsaved presentation."
MisterEinc - "Poor management, honestly. There are a bevy of features that allow you to control when you receive windows updates."
jpedlow - "For real - who’s handling configuration management for these orgs, and why haven’t they heard of maintenance windows? Lol"
DerpDerper909 - "F*CK MICROSOFT!!!"
gaporter - "(Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. is on track to deliver an improved version of its combat goggles by July 31 for intensive soldier testing that will help the US Army decide whether to deploy the devices by 2025 or cancel the troubled program, according to the service. After delivery, the first 20 prototype IVAS 1.2 goggles will be assessed by two squads of solders in late August to check for improvements in reliability, low-light performance and how well they fit soldiers without repeats of the nausea and dizziness that halted the deployment of earlier versions. Microsoft said in a statement that the deliveries will be three months ahead of schedule. This initial assessment measures system performance to ensure engineering efforts are on schedule and meeting design objectives,” the Army said. A decision to deploy the military version would unlock billions of dollars for procurement that Congress has become unwilling to free up pending improvements to the device, which is based on the company’s HoloLens “mixed reality” goggles. Read more: Microsoft’s Headache-Inducing Army Goggles Delayed Two Years Over a decade, the Army projects spending as much as $21.9 billion for as many as 121,000 devices, spares and support services if all options are exercised. If the initial assessment is a success, the Army will award a contract between July and September of next year to produce additional devices for a second soldier evaluation. Success there would be followed by a full-blown combat operational test between April and June 2025, determining whether the goggles would be deployed to combat units within months."
