The Landscape background is a recreation of the classic photo captured in 1996 by Charles O'Rear. The original photo was taken in the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of California's Wine ...

Microsoft Launcher v6 also brings a whole host of new wallpapers to adorn your homescreen. You can find these within the Bing and Microsoft folders when applying a wallpaper within the Microsoft ...

The new backgrounds in Microsoft Teams. Image: Microsoft. Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years.

Microsoft purchased it in 2000. The picture known as "Bliss" soon became one of the most viewed photographs in the world when it was set as the default desktop background in Windows XP.

Version 6 of Microsoft Launcher has now landed in beta on Android, delivering a fresh look for the 'Feed' and Landscape Mode. The latter of those changes, ...

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

Microsoft Teams users can now use a green screen effect to improve virtual backgrounds. You don’t even need a dedicated green screen as long as a clear wall behind you is a single color.

That longevity—plus Microsoft's total domination of personal computing in the pre-iPhone, pre-Android world—helped make its default wallpaper one of the most recognizable images on the planet.

Even though Microsoft killed off support for Windows XP this week after 13 years, they paid homage to the nostalgic desktop photo taken by Charles O'Rear in 1996.

Other updates for Microsoft Teams in August 2023 include a new chat hover menu design, Spatial audio support in Teams Rooms, and Task lists sync in Microsoft Loop, among many others.