It’s not too far-fetched to believe that a billion people have viewed the “Bliss” image that defines the desktop view of Windows XP, the seminal OS that Microsoft is retiring Tuesday.

SEE MORE The hills are alive on this year’s ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft. Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the tech giant’s latest soft-wear features “Bliss,” the default ...

That's what happens when Microsoft buys one of your photos, names it, 'Bliss,' and makes it the default for Windows XP. "We're guessing billions of people have seen it because it's on 500 million ...

Microsoft is returning to the Bliss hill once again with this year's entry in its now-traditional ugly retro-computing sweater series. Blue hemming at the bottom and on the sleeves evokes Windows ...

Bliss is the default computer desktop image when Microsoft's Windows XP operating system is launched. The photo, taken by Charles O'Rear, is of a highway in Napa Valley after a storm cleared.

Soon, though, the image that was "just another picture" became iconic, as Microsoft plucked it from a stock photo agency called Corbis, named it "Bliss" and made it the default background of the ...

Bliss, meanwhile, has gone on to become one of the world's most iconic photographs, chosen as the default wallpaper of Microsoft's operating system. "There's a time of the year in our mid-winter ...

Microsoft has unveiled the 2023 edition of its annual Windows Ugly Sweater This years' design is based on the classic Windows XP "Bliss" wallpaper The sweater is available in limited quantities ...