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Comment by LeoPanthera

This is not true.

Southwest is not running Windows 3.1.

https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/112823168105006094

"So, it would seem that one shitpost led some journalists to breathlessly google for corroborating sources, and "Southwest builds its crew scheduling apps in-house, and they look like shit, like they're from the Windows 95 era" morphed into "Southwest runs everything on Windows 3.1".

Maybe I've missed some actual evidence for these claims, I dunno. But every mention of Southwest and Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 eventually lead back to this lineage of 3 articles misquoting each other."

I tried to leave a comment on the original article, but tomshardware.com prevents my comment from being "spamlike", even though it has no spam. If anyone has a functional forum account there, please post a correction.

It's frankly embarrassing that Toms Hardware posted this with no evidence whatsoever, and is banning comments trying to correct it.

Jowi Morales, if you are a real person and not an AI, you should be ashamed.

parent LeoPanthera 2 years ago

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