Think about how a photo of a pastoral California hillside became the iconic “Bliss” backdrop of Windows XP, for example ... beach scenes, cats, or astrophotography. Microsoft uses these ...

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 ...

Download Ninja cat high-resolution wallpaper Next, reader of the site Chris_Kez shared a Windows Phone Lockscreen version, now with Bing and Office logos to boot: Download Ninja cat Windows Phone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For anyone using a computer in the early 2000s, an image is immediately recognizable - the bright blue sky of the Rolling Green Hills and Windows XP's default wallpaper, bliss. This cool landscape ...

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 ...

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 ...