And, according to my peepers, Windows has never had a better aesthetic combination than the blue taskbar, green Start button, and gentle rolling hills of the Windows XP default wallpaper.

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 ...

Microsoft acquired the rights to Bliss in 2000, and from the company's widespread use of the photo as the official Windows XP wallpaper, it's speculated to be the most viewed photograph in history.

blissful Microsoft’s ugly sweater for 2023 is Windows XP’s iconic default wallpaper The world's most-recognizable default wallpaper is back, in sweater form.

Bliss Hill, the landscape featured in the iconic wallpaper, is totally fine.

The recreation of the iconic Windows XP wallpaper in Minecraft was well-received by thousands of people on the official Reddit page.

Today I stumbled upon Microsoft’s 4K rendering of the Windows XP wallpaper Microsoft Design site has a ton of attractive wallpapers, retro and otherwise.

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 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.

According to Instagram account Inside History, the Windows XP wallpaper image was taken in 1996 by photographer Charles O’Rear. It was acquired by Microsoft some time between then and the 2001 ...

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 ...

The desktop background displayed by default in Windows XP was taken by a photographer named Charles O'Rear in a landscape of a wine farm in California, and Microsoft bought the photo. O'Rear, who ...