Windows 3.0’s desktop. Windows 3.0 looked significantly ... Ditto for the background wallpaper, Bliss. XP didn’t add that much: ClearType rendered fonts better on LCD displays, prefetching ...

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 ...

Charles ‘Chuck’ O'Rear photographed a field in California - an image that would become world-famous thanks to Microsoft ...

Microsoft is turning 50, and nothing has defined the tech giant more than Windows. Like you, we've loved some versions of the ...

Providing ubiquitous desktop software for decades, Microsoft has come in for jibes, mockery and even loathing even as it has helped millions of people get things done. - 'Helpful' Clippy - Long before ...

A fixture since the very first versions of Windows — if mercifully much ... using computers in the 1990s and 2000s, the idyllic desktop background now recalls a simpler time of after-school ...

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.

It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when Windows didn't have a taskbar, a Start button or any desktop shortcuts ... released a commemorative wallpaper (above) featuring Clippy.

You can use the Windows XP interface (as well as other Windows versions) on the Linux distribution Q4OS. Here's how you can ...

That feeling is captured by art director Yulia Makhmudova in this Cascading Solitare wallpaper. Windows XP was one of the best operating systems around, and its colorful motif included tulips.

The idea is to seemingly give Windows 11 users more control over the menu’s usability. Windows XP’s Start Menu Digital Trends While it’s difficult for the Start Menu to return to its ...