Popular hill in Windows XP wallpaper ‘Bliss’ may have survived California brush fire By: Alfred Bayle - @ABayleINQ INQUIRER.net / 06:53 PM October 26, 2017 Share: ...

The original Windows XP photo, named "Bliss," was shot in 1998 by National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear, according to PC World.

Turns out Windows XP's iconic default desktop wallpaper is actually a photo of a real life hill in the Bay Area. I went and found the hill, plus the amazing 79-year-old man who took the photo.

"I know for a fact that the Windows Bliss hill and the winery on the property are 100 percent undamaged from the fires," Johnson told NBC Bay Area. "I literally drive by there twice a day." ...

(Bliss Hill isn’t technically the hill’s real name. Bliss is the name of the wallpaper itself, but has become also the hill’s moniker this side of Windows XP’s ubiquity.) ...

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Yes, that impossibly green hill is a real place, and it's been replicated with particular precision with the new flight sim. So, uh, here's how to find Bliss.

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.

The Bliss wallpaper on Windows XP is the most-viewed image in the world with nearly 1 billion people viewing it. The photograph that went on to become Windows’ default wallpaper was clicked by ...

This year’s Windows Ugly Sweater is inspired by the Windows XP default wallpaper—the photo of “Bliss” Hill in Sonoma, California, taken in 1996 by National Geographic photographer Charles ...