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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 …