and gentle rolling hills of the Windows XP default wallpaper. Granted, that might just be nostalgia for a time when I didn’t have a mortgage and sciatica. But if you’re in the same camp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has unveiled the 2023 edition of its annual Windows Ugly Sweater This years' design is based on the classic Windows XP "Bliss" wallpaper The sweater is available in limited quantities ...

A major shakeup to the overall Windows '95 and '98 aesthetic, XP's bright blue default theme was accompanied by its desktop wallpaper depicting Napa Valley wine country. Windows XP also became one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.