The hillside image that was Windows XP's 'Bliss' desktop wallpaper. 'I have a theory that anybody now from age 15 on for the rest of their life will remember this photograph', says O’Rear. However, Microsoft cropped and turned up the saturation for the desktop wallpaper version. He shot four frames and his Corbis reps contacted him to acquire the original slides, which he couldn't send via courier because the value was so high. O'Rear says the original frame was unaltered and unedited when he submitted it. In the video, O'Rear displays a Mamiya RZ67 medium format camera and explains he shot the image using Fujichrome Velvia. Traveling between his Napa, California residence and San Francisco he spotted the verdant hills and set up his camera gear. O'Rear, a former National Geographic photographer, didn’t have Microsoft in mind when he shot the image. To celebrate the retiring of the XP operating system (they stopped supporting it April 8), Microsoft tracked down the original photographer, Charles 'Chuck' O'Rear, and talked to him about the shot, which he originally took in 1996. Referred to as 'Bliss', the lush landscape of rolling grass hills and a crystal-blue sky has, to Microsoft's estimation, been seen by at least a billion people. On networks I agree itll plug the bandwidth but here its local system. As my RAM is quite capable enough to run both Windows 7 and Windows XP (Virtual PC) and also GPU is not bad either. In 2001 Microsoft released the Windows XP operating system and with it an iconic desktop photograph. I found out that probably Bliss is missing from the Virtual Windows XP provided by Microsoft.
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