Janet Jackson song used to cause laptops to stop working, Microsoft reveals

 Washington: The leading technology company Microsoft has revealed that some of the company's old laptops crashed due to the video of American singer Janet Jackson's song Rhythm Nation.

Raymond Chen, the company's senior software engineer, said in a blog post that a colleague recently told him of an incident when he was working in Windows XP product support.

Janet Jackson's 1989 hit Rhythm Nation naturally contained resonant frequencies that Microsoft and other companies were using for their hard drives at the time, he said.

That is, hard drives spinning at 5400 cycles per minute stopped working when that video was played.

Another strange thing was later noticed that playing this video on a laptop was causing other nearby laptops to crash even though the video was not playing on that laptop, Raymond Chen said. used to be

Hardware makers solved this problem by creating a special audio filter that spots these irritating frequencies and eliminates them before they exit the speakers and crash the hard drive.