The piece was commissioned by Microsoft for Windows 95 and composed by Brian Eno in 1994, after he was asked for music that was inspiring, futuristic and optimistic yet very short. Eno created dozens of tiny ambient sketches, and one became the startup sound heard on millions of PCs from the 1995 launch onward. As Windows 95 became a defining part of 1990s computing, the chime spread through retrospectives, parodies and nostalgia edits, and it remains a shorthand for the early internet and home PC era.
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The Microsoft Sound is the short ambient startup chime composed by Brian Eno for Windows 95, often used for nostalgia, tech reveals and retro PC moments.
The Microsoft Sound is a brief, airy ambient tone that rises and settles in just a few seconds, designed to feel calm, futuristic and welcoming. Composed as the Windows 95 startup sound, it has soft synth pads with no beat or voice, creating a gentle sense of a system waking up. Listeners instantly associate it with early home computing, so it works less as a joke sting and more as a warm, nostalgic cue that signals a beginning, a boot up or a return to the classic desktop era.
