From pixels to pinot_ The Windows XP 'Bliss' wallpaper hill was real and this is what it looks like

By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001

was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system. That's an objective, empirical, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed, double-blind fact. After all, it's arguably most famous for its signature "Bliss" wallpaper depicting a rolling green hill, deep blue sky and little fluffy clouds. But whatever happened to that hill? Was it actually real? And if it was, what does it look like today?

Turns out, not l86.com สล็อต only was the Bliss hill real, that high-saturation image apparently wasn't even manipulated. The hill in l86.com สล็อต question was located in Sonoma County, California. Indeed, it still is.

According to Instagram account , the Windows XP wallpaper image was taken in 1996 by photographer Charles O’Rear. It was acquired by Microsoft some time between then and the 2001 release of Windows XP. The rest, as they say, is history, inside or otherwise.

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That scans given Sonoma County is said to account for 6% of Californian wine production based on around 60 varieties of grapes. According to the (PDF warning), the county cranked out 24 million bottles of the stuff in 2021 from roughly 62,000 acres of vineyards.

Of course, Windows XP is a now long-dead OS. Microsoft ended support for the regular Home and Professional versions back in 2014, while the last version to die was one for embedded point-of-sale devices, .

It was a hugely successful OS that popped up everywhere, including the International Space Station, though pg168 ทางเข้า it was . It was also widely regarded as a huge step forward over the Windows 98 and Windows ทางเข้า w88 ใหม่ ล่าสุด ME versions that preceded it. Indeed, if there has been a more beloved version of Windows, it's not obvious what it ทางเข้า w88 ใหม่ ล่าสุด is.

, of course, was released in 2021 and you might expect there to be another version coming along soon. However, at CES Microsoft published a blog post saying that 2025 would be, "." So, if there is going to be a Windows 12, it looks unlikely to be this year.


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