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." ...

For people who can't get enough of Bliss or other '90s- and 2000s-era Microsoft stuff, the company has also released a few retro-themed high-resolution wallpapers on its Microsoft Design site.

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 ...

(Bliss Hill isn’t technically the hill’s real name. Bliss is the name of the wallpaper itself, but has become also the hill’s moniker this side of Windows XP’s ubiquity.) ...

Charles O'Rear is the photographer behind Bliss, the Windows XP image that went on to grace millions of desktops around the world. He discusses the iconic photo and how it will live on as XP fades ...

August 28, 2011 - 4:14 pm One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly the default Windows XP image showing a blissfully relaxing vista of green rolling hills and a bluer than blue sky.

Like Windows XP itself, Microsoft's 'Bliss' image of rolling green hills has aged, and evolved. Here's its story— and what the real-world site looks like today.