![]() O'Rear sent the photo, which he titled "Bliss", to the Corbis stock image licensing company in 1999, which happens to be owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. ![]() The actual location is in the wine country of Northern California (you can check out the exact spot on Bing Maps). That also means many PCs will still have the Windows XP default wallpaper, depicting a location of green rolling hills, running in the background.īut where did that idyllic view come from? As CNet Australia reports, the original photo that Microsoft used as the basis for the wallpaper was taken back in 1996 by photographer Charles O'Rear using a Mamiya RZ67 film camera. Windows XP support ends one week from today but, as we learned, the 12-year old operating system will still be used by a ton of PCs worldwide after that day has come and gone.
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