Windows XP Microsoft was the most pleasant repetition of the operating system everywhere. It is a purpose, experimental, Placebo -controlled, peer revised, double blind fact. Nevertheless, it is the most famous for its signature “Blessing” wallpaper, photographing a rolling green hill, deep blue sky and a little sharp clouds. But what happened to this hill? Was it really real? And if it was, looks like today?
It turns out, not only the Billis Hill was real, nor was the image of a high saturation apparently not even manipulated. The underground hill was located in Sonoma County, California. Indeed, this is still.
According to the Instagram account Within historyPhotographer Charles and Rear took pictures of Windows XP wallpaper in 1996. It was taken some time between Microsoft and the 2001 Windows XP release. The rest, as they say, have history, inside or in any other way.
The original photo was described as a “medium format” camera. This is actually an analog picture, which has been caught in the film. A complete resolution version of the blessing can be seen hereWalking into 3,627 pixels in 4,510. Windows XP sent with a version that measures only 800 pixels via 600 pixels.
Anyone, within which history has a series of pictures taken from the point of view of the same location in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025. As of 2006, the mountain rolling grass had turned into a turning point, it seems that the latest 2025 is retained.
It is said that 6 % of California’s wine production in the scans given to Sonoma County is based on 60 types of grapes. According to Annual Report of Sonoma Wine Grape –
Of course, Windows XP is now a long dead OS. Microsoft eliminated support for a regular home and professional version in 2014, while the last version of the dye was one for the Embeded Point of Sale Equipment, which was removed from the MS Support Program in 2019.
It was a very successful OS that popped up everywhere, including the International Space Station, though it was Even in 2013 was taken through Linux. It was widely regarded as a huge step above Windows 98 and Windows May version that were before. In fact, if there is a more beloved version of Windows, it is unclear what it is.
Windows 11, of course, was released in 2021 and you can expect another version to come soon. However, a blog post was published in CES Microsoft which states that it will be 2025, “Year of Windows 11 PC refresh. “So, if Windows is about to happen, it is unlikely to happen this year.