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BB-8 Would Sound Incredibly Annoying if He Ran on Windows XP

By Andrew Liszewski Published May 17, 2016, 1:01 pm ET

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The Star Wars sound effects team does a brilliant job at breathing life into droids like BB-8 and R2-D2 using nothing but bloops and beeps. But what if BB-8 ran an operating system created by Microsoft? As Brian Elder discovered, BB-8 would be far less adorable and much more annoying if he spoke using Windows XP’s notification sounds.

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