but starting with Windows 3.0, you could customize your desktop background with some images. Initially, these images were fairly basic and not all that visually appealing by today's standards ...

If you've been tempted to download the Bing Wallpaper app to spice ... led me to take a look using basic tools, such as ILSpy ...

To commemorate the milestone, the company has released eight limited-edition Windows wallpapers with themes familiar to anyone who's been around during the half-century run. Microsoft turns 50 ...

The new design takes the basic Windows logo and shines light through ... The impact on you at home: The new wallpaper will certainly look nice sitting on store shelves when you go to look at ...

Aimed at netbooks and other proprietary systems, it's the most diluted version of Windows 7 with many basic features missing ... such as the ability to change desktop backgrounds, window colors ...

That longevity—plus Microsoft's total domination of personal computing in the pre-iPhone, pre-Android world—helped make its default wallpaper one of the most recognizable images on the planet.

Or maybe you just like attractive, high-resolution desktop wallpapers and you want to make a change? It turns out that Microsoft's design team has rendered an updated 4K version of the default Win ...