Windows 11 Build 27898 brings back the Windows Vista startup sound due to a bug. Enjoy the nostalgia while it lasts.

What is old is new again, and that appears to be the case with Apple's Liquid Design, which has another feature that reminds ...

Microsoft patches Vista startup-sound bug before it hits Windows 11 production and won't let you change the boot sound ...

As spotted by XenoPanther on X, the Windows Vista noise has made a return in Windows 11's Canary branch. It's a little weird, given how the Dev and Beta builds got a fix for this weird bug, and the ...

During Apple’s WWDC keynote, when it introduced the new Liquid Glass design material for macOS Tahoe and all other Apple operating systems, it caught my attention right away. This isn’t just because ...

Software Windows ‘You did say how much you loved Vista’ – Microsoft’s most hated operating system pops up in Windows 11’s weirdest glitch ever News By Darren Allan published 16 June 2025 ...

Windows Vista's iconic boot chime has made a surprise return in the latest Windows 11 preview builds.

Windows testers started noticing the issue shortly after Microsoft released its latest Dev Channel build of Windows 11 on Friday afternoon. The .WAV file for the bootup sound, which is stored inside ...

Windows Vista Sound Returns to Windows 11, Supposedly By Mistake The timing makes us wonder whether Microsoft intended this as a response to Apple’s design choices, but the company says it was ...

OS 26 beta 3 has been rolled out, and while it fixes some problems, it also apparently dilutes the identity of Liquid Glass ...

But if you’ve been hearing the Vista boot noise instead of the more modern Windows 11 one, yeah, that’s a bug.

USB flash drives (a.k.a. “thumb” drives) may seem passé in a world where AirDrop and cloud storage solve the file-transfer ...