Janet Jackson Had the Power to Crash Laptop Computers
by hubie from on (#62QS9)
owl writes:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
A colleague of mine shared a story from Windows XP product support. A major computer manufacturer discovered that playing the music video for Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" would crash certain models of laptops. I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem.
[...] One discovery during the investigation is that playing the music video also crashed some of their competitors' laptops.
And then they discovered something extremely weird: Playing the music video on one laptop caused a laptop sitting nearby to crash, even though that other laptop wasn't playing the video!
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