14 DAY TRIAL // Windows XP was launched 15 years ago today, and although Microsoft has also released several other versions of the operating system in the meantime, it continues to be super popular these days.
If you’re not planning to upgrade to newer Windows anytime soon or you already did that but miss Windows XP so much, here’s something that might come in handy: an HD version of the iconic Bliss wallpaper that is available in multiple resolutions suitable for pretty much any desktop out there.
Posted on reddit by /u/WallpapersRoyale, this wallpaper pack is certainly a neat touch for computers of those who liked Windows XP more than any other Windows version, and according to third-party stats, there are a lot of them.
For example, Net Applications claims that in September 2016, Windows XP was still running on 9.11 percent of computers across the world, which makes it the third most-used desktop operating system at the moment. Windows XP has more users than Windows 8.1 (7.83 percent), but also than Mac OS X 10.11 (4.07 percent) and Linux (2.23 percent).
Microsoft can’t be happy with these figures, especially because it’s struggling to get people to newer versions of Windows, but it’ll clearly take longer for everyone to migrate off Windows XP.
As for the iconic Bliss wallpaper, here’s what the place where it was made looks like right now (the location is Sonoma County, California, United States).
