'I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. 'The thing from the agency said, 'We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,' this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said 'and it must be 3 1/4 seconds long.' And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, 'Here's a specific problem-solve it.' I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. 'The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. In a June 1996 interview published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Eno was asked about his involvement with Microsoft and the Windows 95 sound project: If you have forgotten the Windows Sound, you can hear it on YouTube. The final tune came out to be 6 seconds long and is known as the Windows Sound. The only stipulation was that the piece of music be only 3.25 seconds long. His assignment was to compose a piece of music to play when the operating system started up. Windows 95īack in the Windows 95 development days, Microsoft contracted with Brian Eno, a world famous musician whose extensive career includes being the synthesizer player for the band Roxy Music in the early 70's, as well as work with Talking Heads, David Bowie, and U2. Seeing how the Windows 10 Hero Desktop Image was created makes for a very interesting experience, and I encourage everyone interested in Windows 10 to take a look at it.Īs I watched the video, I was reminded that this isn't the first time that Microsoft has gone all out on some kind of special effects feature for a new operating system. Munkowitz, a Design Director for the motion graphics industry, who is known for his work with Adobe Logo Remix, the title sequence for the Flash On The Beach conference, and creating holographic content for the feature film TRON: Legacy just to name a few of his endeavors. To create this distinctive piece of art for their new operating system, Microsoft contracted with Bradley G. Over the holiday weekend, I visited the Blogging Windows site and watched the Windows 10 Hero Desktop Image | Behind the Scenes video that chronicles the making of the amazing new Windows desktop wallpaper that appears in Build 10162, which is the most recent build of the Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview.

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