I did read the article. It links to https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/southwest-airlines-av... perhaps you might want to read it again?

Notably, crowdstrike won't run on 3.1, and thus you're kinda right.

No one runs servers with Windows 3.1. They would have used Windows NT.

The really damning bit is Windows 3.1 did not have preemptive multitasking. It barely had networking. You couldn’t run a server with it if you wanted to.

> They would have used Windows NT.

Or, at the time, OS/2

Yes and that article is wrong.

Win 3.1 or not, the point still stands. There is a lot of software out there that has been running for a really long time and will continue to do so.

Relatedly, it is nice to provide a source for your claims. I did see this [0] which would have been an appropriate thing to link

[0] https://kotaku.com/southwest-airlines-windows-3-1-blue-scree...

Dude, take the L. But for that false story being recited, you wouldn't have made that point in the first place.

> For everyone flabbergasted by Southwest running ~Windows 3.1~ old software

You said it; own it. You could have said "For everyone who was tricked by the joke that Southwest runs ~Windows 3.1~ old software" but didn't.

That is fair. I wasn't aware of the kerfuffle around whether Southwest was using 3.1 or not. I took the source and linked source at face value. It would have been nice to have had someone do more than "nope" and instead link to a reputable source. This is how you counter disinformation.

It had already been done a dozen times in the original item across multiple threads.