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 one of ...

Bill Gates and Microsoft set a computer desktop background that would become the most-viewed shot in the world.

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, who shot ...

Windows XP was an actively supported Microsoft product for 13 years, including five years where it was the newest version available and another three years where it was vastly more popular than its ...

The wallpapers included with Windows Vista were taken by amateur photographers, but the Windows XP desktop background, which may be thought to be CG, is also a real place. This photo, one of the most ...

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Anyone who used a Windows computer remembers the iconic default wallpaper on XP: a hill with the greenest of grass, and a rich blue sky with a few clouds. In case you didn't know, it's a real place — ...

You may not know the name Charles O’Rear, but if you’ve used a PC in the last decade, you’re familiar with his photo. The 73-year-old photog is the man behind the tranquil image of a rolling hill and ...

A friend generated a Windows 11 “Bloom” wallpaper using Windows Central’s colors, and it hit me right in the nostalgia.

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. The photographer behind Windows XP's classic desktop wallpaper has returned with new snaps ...