The post Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation” Too Rhythmic for Microsoft, Crashed Laptops appeared first on Consequence. When Janet Jackson sang, “With music by our side, we’ll break the color lines,” not ...

Janet Jackson’s wardrobe isn’t the only thing that can cause a malfunction. According to a Microsoft development blogger, “a major computer manufacturer” has discovered that playing “Rhythm Nation” ...

Janet Jackson and her catalog of songs have done things to our hearts and minds for years. Apparently, the rhythm in her nation does things to laptops too. Raymond Chen, a Microsoft employee, has been ...

For a decade or so, a major threat to your laptop wasn’t a virus, malware, or hacking — it was Janet Jackson’s hit song, “Rhythm Nation.” What you might think of as an apocryphal urban legend was ...

Raymond Chen wrote about the discovery regarding Jackson's signature 1989 music video earlier this month in a blog post, and the Empress of Pop has since reacted via Instagram Jack Irvin has over five ...

Windows XP had a bug linked to playing Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation. The bug caused crashes in PCs due to frequencies affecting hard drives. Microsoft implemented a filter to fix the issue. Windows ...