- Windows 11 tests are reproducing the starting sound of Windows Vista
- A Microsoft executive has confirmed that this is a mistake in those previous views
- That looks like a surprising coincidence, since Microsoft has recently made fun of Apple’s Liquid Glass to look like Windows Vista
In one of the strangest developments with Windows 11 at some time, the test compilations of the operating system have been temporarily affected by an error that has changed the start sound.
That is the sound of sound that is reproduced when the desktop appears for the first time, and instead of the usual use of Windows 11, the evaluators in the Beta and Development channels began their PC to listen to the noise of Windows Vista (and Windows 7).
These four nostalgic notes will immediately transport anyone who has a PC with those operating systems directly to that time in the computer history, and certainly immediately confused many testers.
There seems to be an error where the Windows Vista/7 start sound is used in the last beta and Windows 11 development channelsJune 13, 2025
Why did this happen? Xeno, the Windows tester who marked this as an error in X (see the previous publication stained by Tom hardware), received the confirmation of Brandon Leblanc from Microsoft, a Windows Senior Product Manager in the company, which is in fact a failure.
But not before Leblanc joked: “I entered and had a little fun with the sound files in Windows and I thought people needed an explosion of the past 😉 You would say how much you loved himself in view.”
When someone responded to say that he could not say if Leblanc was joking or not, the Microsoft executive clarified that in fact it is a real mistake that is causing the Windows Vista start sound to repeat.
Analysis: Discussion Accundant
How can an error like that possibly crawl? It cannot, surely, although I suppose that Leblanc means that someone was playing with the start of fun for fun, and accidentally implemented the change for Windows 11 evaluators, when they did not want to do it.
Presumably, anyway, although perhaps it is the case that the old characteristics of long -dead Windows operating systems can manifest randomly in Windows 11. In which case, the testers, look for clippy appearing accidentally at the end of this year. Or the icons on the desk suddenly return to how they looked at Windows 3.1, maybe. Who knows where the vertiginous uncle of nostalgic failures could take us below?
Ahem. Or the whole matter is the tongue and cheek, although Leblanc reproduces it directly in X, and the fact that the error has been added as a known problem for the compilation of the previous view of the DEV channel, with Microsoft saying that it is “working on a solution.”
Of course, everything seems like a coincidence that Microsoft has just made fun of the big fanfare and uproar with which Apple presented its liquid glass interface for Macos Tahoe 26 (and other important platforms), when you remember the aerodynamic effect of Windows Vista.
Therefore, the sound of the view, accidentally, makes its appearance here to reinforce that particular shadow launch in particular is, we say, an interesting coincidence. I mean an error. Yes, definitely an interesting mistake.
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