Brian Eno, the composer of the Windows 95 startup sound, has criticized Microsoft in an open letter for its provision of artificial intelligence and cloud services to the Israeli military. He argues that such support implicates the company in potential war crimes. Eno, a longtime critic of Israel and supporter of the BDS movement, expresses solidarity with Microsoft employees advocating against the company's actions. He intends to donate his fee from the Windows 95 composition to victims in Gaza and reflects on the shocking disconnect between his past work with Microsoft and its current military affiliations.
"If you knowingly build systems that can enable war crimes, you inevitably become complicit in those crimes," wrote Eno.
"I never would have believed that the same company could one day be implicated in the machinery of oppression and war."
"...support of a regime that is engaged in actions described by leading legal scholars and human rights organisations... as genocidal."
Eno expressed solidarity with Microsoft workers who have 'done something truly disruptive and refused to stay silent.'
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