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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The default Windows XP wallpaper containing rolling green hills, blue sky and fluffy white clouds may be more recognisable than the ...