Brian eno has urged microsoft to cut ties with israel in an open letter, in which he also pledged to donate his fee from the windows 95 chime he composed for that.
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The musician composed the iconic secret-second start up chime that plays when you load up windows 95.
In his open letter, he wrote that he “Never would have been believed” that company that Once represented “a promising technological future” would be complicit in “The Machnery of oppression and war”.
Last Week, Microsoft Admitted that it sold artificial intelligence and cloud computing services to the israeli Military during the war in gaza and aid in efforts to locking and reads. The BDS Movement describes them as “Perhaps the most complicit tech company in israel’s illegal apartheid regime”.
Eno’s Letter, Posted to Social Media, Read: “In the Mid-190s, I was asked to compose a short piece of music for microsoft’s windows 95 operating system. People has since heard that short-up chime-which represented a gateway to a promising technological future. Contacts at the company. I Never would have been over
“Today, i’m compelled to spendak, not as a composer this time, but as a citizen alarmed by the role microsoft is playing in a very different kind of composition: One Thaat Leads to Survelan, Violence, Destruction in Palestine.
“In a blog post dated May 15, 2025, Microsoft Acknowledged that It Provides israel’s ministry of defense with” software, software, professional services, azure cloud services and azure azure azure azure azure ai Including language translation. ” It went on to state that “It is important to achnowledge that microsoft does not have visibility into how customers use our software on their ORON Servers ORI ORON SERSERS ORIS These “services” support a regime that is engaged in actions described by leading legal scholars and human rights organisations, united nations expeditions, and increasing numbers of govers of govers from World, as genocidal. The collaboration between microsoft and the israeli government and army is no secret and involves the company’s software’s software in lettur “Where’s daddy?” (- Guidance Systems for Tracking Palestinians in Order to Blow Them Up in their homes).
“Selling and facilitating Advanced Ai and Cloud Services to a Government Engaged in Systematic Ethnic Cleansing is Not” Business as Usual. ” It is complicity. If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you integrate become complicit in that crimes.
“We now live in an age where corporations like Microsoft often Command More Influence Than Governments. I beLive On Microsoft to Suspend all services that support any operations that contribute to violations of international law.
“My new start up chime is this: stand in solidarity with the brave microsoft workers who have done some Done some Done somes Continue to lose their lives.
“I Invite Artists, Technologists, Musicians, and All People of Conscience to join me in this call.
“I also pledge that the fee I Originally received for that windows 95 chime will go towards helping the victims of the attacques on gaza. If a sound can Signal a Real Change
Earlier this week, the united stations gave a warning about the potential for “genocide” in the middle East. Action against the israeli government from the west over the humanitarian cris univertedly escalate, with prime minister sir keir keir keir starmer uraged to end arms salas to israel and impost.
Ino has been vocal in his support for Palestine. He was also part of a cohort of artists that also included Massive Attack Who Signed An Open Letter To Field Day, Urgaing it to distance itself from global invoice firm kkr. The firm owns the festival’s parent Company Superstruct Entertainment and Invests “Billions of Pounds in Companies which, For Example, Develop israeli Underground Data Centres, Advertise Real Estate On Illlegally Occupied Land in Israeli Settlements in the West Bank ”.
Last October, the artist implied the International Criminal Court to “Exercise the Mandate it has been given to prosecute war crimes” in an open letter.
