It turns out that Microsoft's design team has rendered an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper—you ... While the updated Bliss image does appear to be a 3D rendering, it ...

Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the tech giant’s latest soft-wear features “Bliss,” the default desktop image in the time of Windows XP. The famous image is a real photograph of a ...

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 ...

It’s not too far-fetched to believe that a billion people have viewed the “Bliss” image that defines the desktop view of Windows XP, the seminal OS that Microsoft is retiring Tuesday.

Charles O'Rear is the photographer behind Bliss, the Windows XP image that went on to grace millions of desktops around the world. He discusses the iconic photo and how it will live on as XP fades ...

SEE MORE “Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. (YouTube screen grab) Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as ...

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 ...

Windows XP was an actively supported ... wallpapers on its Microsoft Design site. Among the images on that site is a 4K rendering of the Bliss wallpaper.

One of the most famous wallpaper images ... Windows XP launched, and before the area was converted into a vineyard. In fact, a photo taken 10 years later from exactly the same spot where Bliss ...