Janet Jackson‘s seminal album Rhythm Nation 1814 changed music when she released it in 1989. At the time, personal computers were gaining popularity, albeit not as multimedia devices as they are ...

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation used to damage Windows XP PCs, ... According to the engineer, the custom audio filter that was implemented in Windows XP stayed as is until the advent of Windows 7.

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 ...

Released on the Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 album in 1989, "Rhythm Nation" peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and has since become one of Jackson's signature hit songs.

Old laptop models need a custom filter to play Janet Jackson's 'Rhythm Nation' without the song's frequencies causing them to crash.

Janet Jackson’s 1989 classic “Rhythm Nation” is allegedly causing certain laptops to crash. According to Microsoft’s principal software engineer Raymond Chen, the song has the same ...

Janet Jackson is undoubtedly one of the greatest to ever do it. So much so that one of her most sonically innovative hits can crash laptops. Jackson’s 1989 hit “Rhythm Nation,” which is ...

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 ...

In a blog post by Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen, it seems that the music video for Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" was causing particular mid-2000s laptops to crash.

The power of Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation" music video apparently goes beyond its Grammy and VMA wins. Earlier this month, Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen wrote a blog post detailing a colleague ...

Playing Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit “Rhythm Nation” caused some old mid-aughts models of laptops with spinning disc drives, a Microsoft developer reveals.