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I chased through this chain the other day... https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-31-saves-the-day-during-crowdstrike-outage https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-31-sav... https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedreed/2024/07/20/meltdown-what-meltdown-southwest-flew-on-time-all-day/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/tedreed/2024/07/20/meltdown-wha... > A story on the website govtech.com on Friday asked the question, “Why isn’t Southwest affected by the CrowdStrike/Microsoft outage? > “That’s because major portions of the airline’s computer systems are still using Windows 3.1, a 32-year-old version of Microsoft’s computer operating software,” the website said. “It’s so old that the CrowdStrike issue doesn’t affect it so Southwest is still operating as normal. It’s typically not a good idea to wait so long to update, but in this one instance Southwest has done itself a favor.” The govetech.com article is https://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/why-isnt-southwest-affected-by-the-crowdstrike-microsoft-outage https://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/why-isnt-southwe... which linked to https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrike-windows-3-1/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/southwest-cloudstrik... which linked to an earlier Forbes article - https://www.forbes.com/sites/hershshefrin/2022/12/31/can-southwest-airlines-fix-its-systemic-weaknesses-in-the-new-year/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/hershshefrin/2022/12/31/can-sou... > The December 2022 scheduling fiasco was the result of skimping on information technology. I am old enough to remember when Microsoft introduced a new operating system called Windows 95, to replace its predecessor operating system Windows 3.1. The 95 in Windows 95 refers to the year of its introduction: 1995. By some accounts, major portions of Southwest’s scheduling system for pilots and flight attendants is built on the Windows 95 platform. That platform is now more than 25 years old.