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Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government

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Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government

www.theverge.com /news/671864/brian-eno-windows-95-chime-microsoft-israel-palestine-statement

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Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government

www.theverge.com /news/671864/brian-eno-windows-95-chime-microsoft-israel-palestine-statement

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Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno
I cringe hard at this characterisation. Brian Eno is known for many, many things. Amongst other inventing the term Ambient Music and, of course, making such music. But not only. Playing in so many bands and producing so many more. That chime really is the tiniest of all his contributions to musical history.
But yes. Call out all companies and politicians that are complicit. It needs to end yesterday.
- I'm guessing they mention that to highlight he had a previous business relation with them.
- THX1138 director George Lucas
  Sonic 3 composer Michael Jackson
  Mole Mania producer Shigeru Miyamoto
- I mean it may not be his biggest accomplishment but it may be the most relevant.
  
  Ugh, no. I've known Brian Eno and his music and the influence he had on other musicians* for decades before I learnt about this little factoid, just a few years ago.
  (U2, Devo, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Wyatt, Ultravox, Coldplay...)
  
  I guess trying to make generative music hasn't been among your interests. Brian Eno is a huge part of all modern interesting music.
- I read this headline as tongue-in-cheek given he’s better known for the work you mentioned. Gave me a chuckle.
Whatever happened to windows having nice boot up sounds? Win 11 is dull and generic.
- It was competing on a market, despite already owning most of it.
  People could use something like GEM instead of Windows 3.11 and the likes, and a lot of people still did. There were other alternative application shells on top of DOS.
  I think it was a nice ecosystem, actually. Having the most simple and basic and clearly understood base, like DOS, and plenty of addons above it. Probably some multiuser and virtual memory features would still be good, but.
  It's not about systems, it's about usage. Say, if we had NT with a text shell like such a "DOS", and above it plenty of different competing subsystems, not just Windows, with the interface clearly standardized, maybe Windows world wouldn't be such shit.
  And I think many people even working in Microsoft saw its future like that or better than what we have.
  So the moment MS kinda won, they started openly rotting.
Deserved

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