Bliss, the most popular Windows wallpaper, closes 20

Bliss, which means bliss in English, is pretty much the most famous Windows wallpaper in the history of the operating system. Today she celebrates her 20th birthday since as taken by National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear in 1996.

Bucolic Green Hills bliss

Η Bliss is a photo taken in St. Helena, California in 1996 and not photoshopped. The photo was used by Windows XP as a whole, a very special fact when you consider that it became a wallpaper on the most famous operating system .

As for Windows XP, whether you believe it or not, but 15 years after their launch, they are still as popular as the wallpaper they use.

Windows XP is still the third most popular operating system in the world, with its analysts claim that about 10 percent of computers are still running XP. This is impressive given the fact that Microsoft stopped providing for Windows XP as of April 8, 2014, so the operating system no longer receives and security patches from that day.

Bliss is undoubtedly the most popular wallpaper not only for Windows but for any other operating system out there, and it's hard to find a computer user who does not recognize it immediately.

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Written by Dimitris

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