Windows Vista was released by Microsoft in 2007 as the successor to Windows XP, and its startup sound features contributions from guitarist Robert Fripp. The brief melody was designed to feel calm, clear and welcoming, matching Vista's glassy Aero visual style and its focus on a more polished desktop experience. As Vista machines disappeared and clips spread across YouTube, TikTok and soundboards, the chime survived less as an everyday boot sound and more as instant shorthand for nostalgia, old laptops and early meme-era computing.