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.

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. To mark the ...

Microsoft turns 50: The best memes we can all relate to Microsoft ... Yulia Makhmudova in this Cascading Solitare wallpaper. Windows XP was one of the best operating systems around, and its ...

Windows XP was an actively supported Microsoft product ... pre-Android world—helped make its default wallpaper one of the most recognizable images on the planet. Microsoft is returning to ...

I don’t think about the iconic Windows XP wallpaper often, but when an article or a video comes across my social media feed reminding me of it, nothing but happy memories come flooding back.

The photo was captured in Sonoma County, California by National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear in 1996, then sold as a stock ... the default desktop background in Windows XP.

It turns out that Microsoft's design team has rendered an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper—you might know it by its name, "Bliss." Among others, the Microsoft Design site ...

Indeed, it still is. 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 ...

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 default Windows XP wallpaper containing rolling green hills ... While he won't reveal how much he was paid for the photograph, a stock image library item at the time, he said had it been ...