I must have been around four-six years old, and while I don't remember the make or model of our home computer (it was beige-coloured), I do remember the iconic Windows XP wallpaper that's been ...

Windows XP was an actively supported Microsoft product for 13 years, including five years where it was the newest version available and another three years where it was vastly more popular than ...

It was acquired by Microsoft some time between then and the 2001 release of Windows XP. The rest, as they say, is history, inside or otherwise. The original photo was taken with what's described ...

The 73-year-old photog is the man behind the tranquil image of a rolling hill and bright blue sky that served as the default background for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system.

When you set 'Windows XP wallpaper' as the Windows 10 wallpaper, it looks like this. Although the colors and composition are slightly different from the original, the atmosphere is enjoyable.

One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of green rolling hills and a bluer than blue sky. The wallpaper, probably ...

The photo you see above -- the default wallpaper for Windows XP -- is probably the most recognizable image in the world. What you probably didn't know is that it's a real photo, called Bliss ...

Everyone has seen the Windows XP desktop image called Bliss. It’s been ubiquitous for 13 years. And you’ve probably always thought that the serene hillside is kind of corny and probably fake.

Someone even has a collection of all the old Windows wallpapers from 2000 onwards, re-scanned in at least HD, if not 4K from Getty Images and other original sources.

You'll find the iconic hill at the coordinates 38°15′00.5″N 122°24′38.9″W, as noted on Reddit – you can just pop that into the game's search bar to set a map marker at the appropriate ...

Man behind famous Windows XP wallpaper wishes he'd negotiated a better licensing deal By Ben Grubb Updated March 27, 2014 — 1.43am first published March 26, 2014 — 6.07pm ...

This year, 2021, marks the 20th anniversary of Charles O’Rear’s iconic photo in 1996, which became the basis of the Windows XP desktop wallpaper. Microsoft first published Windows XP on Oct ...