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The fact that they’re running 3.1 is not something to be proud of. They’re probably extremely vulnerable to any other attack.
Best feature windows 3.1 has:
... it doesn't pop up message telling you to upgrade to windows 11.
Shhh don't give microsoft any ideas
This is the "can't get a Word Document macro virus because I use the Corel WordPerfect Document type" kind of energy.
No, it doesn't, because Corel didn't buy WordPerfect until 1996.
Edit: man, y'all really don't understand either jokes or the linear progression of time.
Windows 3.1? You fancy kids, and your modern operating systems! What's wrong with Windows 1.0???
Why not Quick and Dirty Operating System?
This is both awesome and frightening for many reasons
One X user suggested that the company switch to Windows XP—it’s also no longer updated, and it can run Windows 3.1 applications via compatibility mode.
Maybe that was a joke, but if anything that would reduce their security. Windows 3.1 and 95 are old enough that they can't even run most stuff from the last two and a half decades, which probably protects them. XP is just new enough, and plenty old enough, to be very risky.
Reminds me of an episode of Ghost in the Shell where a hacker in a hyper-advanced cyberised society was using floppy disks as a storage medium because they were so slow.
