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Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992

Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …

Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It

When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security software), I started thinking about the implications for digital signage software vendors that have scores, hundreds or even thousands of endpoints running Microsoft’s operating system. The company that most comes to …

Have Your Power BI-driven Data Dashboards Stopped Working On Networked Screens? If So, Here’s The Likely Reason

Signagelive CEO Jason Cremins has an interesting post up on Linkedin making the industry aware of a problem some digital signage networks may now be having: displaying real-time data dashboards powered by Microsoft’s Power BI. Microsoft has raised minimum browser support requirements to properly show a URL tied to a Power BI dashboard visualization, so …