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Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Windows 3.1, launched in 1992, is likely not getting any updates. So, when CrowdStrike pushed the faulty update to all its customers, Southwest wasn’t affected (because it didn’t receive an update to begin with).

Aside from Windows 3.1, Southwest also uses Windows 95 for its staff scheduling system.

One X user suggested that the company switch to Windows XP—it’s also no longer updated, and it can run Windows 3.1 applications via compatibility mode.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Anyone using linux also wasnt effected.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Anyone using Windows, but not CrowdStrike was also unaffected. CrowdStrike had released crashy updates for Linux before.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I don’t get the downvotes other than we were affected fixing windows machines all day…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People who try to position this as a "Windows is bad" thing fail to realize that CS could just have easily released a bugged update for their Linux agent instead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Not only could they, they did, months ago.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I think its probably windows users who have heard us go on about linux and now would prefer to suffer the consequences than admit they where wrong.