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.
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.
THX1138 director George Lucas
Sonic 3 composer Michael Jackson
Mole Mania producer Shigeru Miyamoto
I’m guessing they mention that to highlight he had a previous business relation with them.
I mean it may not be his biggest accomplishment but it may be the most relevant.
I guess trying to make generative music hasn’t been among your interests. Brian Eno is a huge part of all modern interesting music.
LOL this has nothing to do with my personal interests, it’s relevant to the content of the article.
There’s such a thing as cultural context. Beethoven is not known as the EU anthem composer, and Eno is not known as the Windows 95 sound composer. It’s weird to refer to them this way.
Yes, you’re absolutely correct, context is important. In this context, the most relevant achievement of Eno is in the title of the article.
The order of the words in the title implies Windows 95 is more culturally important than Brian Eno.
Anyway, Infected Mushroom’s one is better.
Tired of arguing in the interwebs.
The order of the words in the title implies Windows 95 is more culturally important than Brian Eno.
It doesn’t
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…)
No what?
I read this headline as tongue-in-cheek given he’s better known for the work you mentioned. Gave me a chuckle.
Deserved
