Microsoft's Windows 95 hit shelves on this day in 1995, and Brian Eno's audio work made it even more memorable.

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.

The familiar Microsoft sound was composed by ambient music pioneer Brian Eno.

The Windows 95 start-up audio was composed by ambient music pioneer Brian Eno. According to the blurb from the Library of Congress, the final sound clip was twice as long as Microsoft's engineers ...