Our look at the hallmarks of pop culture during the midpoint of ... Microsoft licenses “Start Me Up” for its Windows 95 campaign Microsoft owned the ’90s. In the post-iPod/iPad/iPhone ...

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched Windows 95, with help from the Rolling Stones "Start me Up." The song choice was prophetic. For better or worse, the launch of Windows 95 was the beginning ...

Whaddaya mean you don't recognise it? It's the Windows 95 start-up sound, and it's recently been added to the US Library of Congress list of nationally significant recordings. Alongside "Goodbye ...

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 ...

One of those sounds was intended to play every time a user started up or rebooted Windows 95. In 1994, Microsoft designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk reached out to composer Brian Eno for help ...

According to the Library, the release of the Windows 95 operating system marked a significant ... Microsoft wanted a sound to play as the system booted up and turned to Eno to create it.