The Bliss photo, side-by-side with the same location -- but after the season has ended As you may already know, Windows XP will finally be retired on April 8 2014 -- almost 13 years after it was ...

Windows XP shipped with a version measuring just 800 by 600 pixels. Anywho, Inside History has a series of follow up images taken from the same vantage point in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025.

The picture known as "Bliss" soon became one of the most viewed photographs in the world when it was set as the default desktop background in Windows XP. O'Rear took the photo on film with a ...

One of the main highlights of Windows XP was the Bliss wallpaper ... and choose "Set as Desktop Background." After applying ...

But at the end of it all, I was treated to the old “bliss” desktop background and the Windows XP startup sound (which I ...