The immortal Windows XP wallpaper is now an ‘ugly’ sweater. The ugliest (?) sweater of them all. By Michael Crider. Staff Writer, PCWorld Nov 29, 2023 7:03 am PST. Image: Microsoft.

Remember the iconic Windows XP desktop wallpaper? You won't believe what it looks like now. Beth Nicholls. Thu, June 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM UTC. 3 min read.

Past ugly sweaters have included a Minesweeper motif, MS Paint, the Windows logo, and the immortal Clippy. Microsoft's ugly sweater site also has wallpapers and a few other retro Easter eggs for ...

Windows XP shipped with a version measuring just 800 by 600 pixels. Anywho, Inside History has a series of follow up images taken from the same vantage point in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025.

It turns out that Microsoft's design team has rendered an updated 4K version of the default Windows XP wallpaper—you might know it by its name, "Bliss." ...

The wallpaper, probably one of the most viewed images of all time, is One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of ...

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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 ...

When many people hear the word 'Windows wallpaper,' the first thing that comes to mind is 'Windows XP wallpaper with green hills against a blue sky.' It was a hot topic that Microsoft officially ...