In 1994, the Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Eno to compose music for Windows 95. The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, “The Microsoft Sound”.
Eno shed further light on the composition of the sound on the BBC Radio 4 show The Museum of Curiosity, admitting that he created it using a Macintosh computer, stating “I wrote it on a Mac. I’ve never used a PC in my life; I don’t like them.”
In 2025, the Microsoft Sound was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
Whaaat. I never knew Eno made the Windows 95 start up sounds.
Good on him.
Mr. Brian Eno is a godsend for humanity. He is the hero we do not deserve and his music has touched countless souls.
I am so grateful that he is speaking up for the people of Palestine who are immeasurably suffering in the ongoing genocide against them by the state of Israel.
I had no idea who this was, I was searching for a completely different post…
He’s saved on a playlist now.
upcoming Win 11 sound with descending trombone
Good on ya, Eno.
Eno the Hero.
Thanks Brian.
Any time I see Eno’s name I get that MGMT song stuck in my head (in a good way)
Anyone know how to skip the bot page?
