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”.

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