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A Janet Jackson Song Could Crash Windows XP Laptops A sound frequency in Jackson's famous 'Rhythm Nation' could disrupt a laptop hard drive used in a number of Windows XP notebook models, according to ...

In his blog, The Old New Thing, Microsoft principal software engineer Raymond Chen revealed that most Windows XP-era laptops (circa 2001-2007) can’t handle playing the music video for Janet Jackson’s ...

According to Chen, an unnamed “major computer manufacturer” discovered that some of their computers were crashing when trying to play the song and that playing the song on one laptop could even crash ...

It sounds like something out of an urban legend: Some Windows XP-era laptops using 5400 RPM spinning hard drives can allegedly be forced to crash when exposed to Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit “Rhythm ...