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2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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   Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is an unedited photograph of a green hill and blue sky with white clouds in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Wine Country, California. Charles O'Rear took the photo in January 1996 and Microsoft bought the rights ...

3. Charles O'Rear - Wikipedia

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   Charles O'Rear (born November 26, 1941) [1] is an American photographer. His image Bliss is the default desktop wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. O'Rear started his career with the daily newspapers Emporia Gazette, The Kansas City Star, and Los Angeles Times; worked for National Geographic magazine; and was part of the Environmental Protection Agency's DOCUMERICA project.

4. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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   Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s under the codename ...

5. Windows XP visual styles - Wikipedia

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   Royale (also known as Energy Blue and Media Center style) was originally designed for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and was ported to Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005. [14] It is accompanied by a new wallpaper (inspired by Windows XP Bliss). It presents a relucent, vivid and faux-reflective color scheme with intense blue and green colors.

6. List of Easter eggs in Microsoft products - Wikipedia

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   "The Windows Team" Easter egg in Windows 1.0x. Microsoft Bear appearance in an Easter egg Windows 95 credits Easter egg Windows 98 credits Easter egg Candy Cane texture in Windows XP. Windows 1.0, 2.0 and 2.1 all include an Easter egg, which features a window that shows a list of people who worked on the software along with a "Congrats!" button.

7. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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   A preview version of Windows XP Media Center Edition from Microsoft's eHome division, was shown as CES 2002, with the final version released in July 2002. [22] Windows XP Media Center Edition ("Freestyle", July 2002) [23] This was the original release. Updates to this release added features such as FM radio tuning.

8. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   For build 5001, the wallpaper is the same as Windows XP but has a bull with long horns in a humorous manner. The replacement of some "Windows XP" references with "Windows LH" ("LH" stands for "Longhorn") and the introduction of a highly unstable version of Windows Media Player 10 are also notable in build 5001. These hastily made rebrands ...

9. Active Desktop - Wikipedia

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   It appears that the 64-bit version of Windows XP no longer supports Active Desktop. However, it still provides the option to display Web pages and channels built with Microsoft's Channel Definition Format (CDF) on the desktop. The HTML displaying capabilities are now mainly used for creating original wallpapers and adding search boxes to the ...