Although often focused on music, spoken word ... Ironically, while Windows 95’s welcome chime accompanied one of the most successful computers of all time, Eno never owned one.

You might say it’s difficult for any piece of music to make an impression ... culture” by the LOC, the Windows 95 arpeggio greeted Microsoft users from the welcome screen.

The Windows 95 reboot chime was ... Developed by the renowned music producer Brian Eno, the six-second startup chime was intended to convey a sense of “welcome, hopefulness and progress ...

The National Recording Registry has announced the Microsoft Windows 95 boot-up chime will be added ... how he pulled together 83 soundbites of music to produce the song. Microsoft had given ...

When Windows 95 was being developed, executives commissioned music legend Brian Eno to develop a "piece of music" to play when the operating system started up. This music would become known as ...

The Windows 95 start-up audio was composed by ambient music pioneer Brian Eno ... the chime because they felt it "conveyed the sense of welcome, hopefulness and progress that they envisioned ...

“This year’s National Recording Registry list is an honor roll of superb American popular music from the wide ... the release by Microsoft of the Windows 95 operating system," the Library ...

Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft introduced its Windows 95 operating system on CD-ROM. One of the legacies of the operating system was its dreamy startup music, composed by legendary producer ...