Southwest Airlines avoided CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage because it’s still running Windows 3.1 — fourth-largest US airline remained free of BSoD errors because its OS hasn’t been updated in decades

Image credit: Shutterstock – Pickaxe Media. Article by Wayne Williams. TechRadar Pro – July 27, 2024. 

A recent global IT outage saw a problematic CrowdStrike update cause millions of Windows computers to fall foul of Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) errors worldwide, affecting airlines, hospitals, banks, and businesses. While thousands of flights by United, Delta, and American Airlines into and out of the US were canceled due to the failure, Southwest Airlines reportedly continued operations seemingly unaffected. […]

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