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As the story goes, Microsoft sent the development manager for Windows 95 to a local software store in his pickup truck, where he bought up all the available software—one physical copy of each program. He then took the fully loaded truck back to Microsoft, where he poured all the purchased software onto the tables in the cafeteria. Each member of the Windows 95 development team was then asked to test two programs for compatibility with the new Windows 95:
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It's only affecting people on the Dev and Beta builds of the Windows 11 Insider Preview, apparently, and The Verge reports that Microsoft's Senior Program Manager for Insider Preview has acknowledged it as a known issue. Here's the Windows Vista startup sound, if you don't remember it or (perish the thought) you're too young to have experienced Vista.
Weirdly, this comes less than a week after Microsoft got a little nostalgic for Vista, an oft-maligned entry in the Windows catalog between XP and 8. After Apple showed off an update to its macOS and iOS visual themes that was more than a bit reminiscent of Vista's glassy translucent Aero look, Microsoft threw a little shade over on Instagram.
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