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The iconic Windows 95 startup sound was created by composer Brian Eno, who worked with U2 and David Bowie. Microsoft’s brief to Eno was kind of absurd: “A piece of music that is inspiring, universal, futuristic, sentimental, emotional…and only 3.25 seconds long.” Eno made 84

The iconic Windows 95 startup sound was created by composer Brian Eno, who worked with U2 and David Bowie. Microsoft’s brief to Eno was kind of absurd: “A piece of music that is inspiring, universal, futuristic, sentimental, emotional…and only 3.25 seconds long.” Eno made 84 versions of the sound. He told SF Gate that it was “like making a tiny little jewel.” Microsoft paid him $35k for the sound, which has probably been heard by hundreds of millions of people. But the real benefit to Eno was that the Windows 95 sound unlocked a creative block he had with his main music projects. “I…

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