The famous Windows XP wallpaper, "Bliss," captured in 1996, looks drastically different today—here’s how the iconic landscape ...

Windows XP was the most blissful iteration of Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system. That's an objective, empirical, ...

The photo you see above -- the default wallpaper for Windows XP -- is probably the most recognizable image in the world. What you probably didn't know is that it's a real photo, called Bliss ...

The photo was captured in Sonoma County, California by National Geographic photographer Charles O'Rear in 1996, then sold as a stock photo to image licensing agency Corbis. Microsoft purchased it ...