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Windows Spotlight is a feature included with Windows 10 and Windows 11 which downloads images and advertisements from Bing and displays them as background wallpapers on the lock screen. In 2017, Microsoft began adding location information for many of the photographs.
[10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]
A computer screen showing a background wallpaper photo of the Palace of Versailles A wallpaper from fractal. A wallpaper or background (also known as a desktop background, desktop picture or desktop image on computers) is a digital image (photo, drawing etc.) used as a decorative background of a graphical user interface on the screen of a computer, smartphone or other electronic device.
Added the ability to display desktop wallpapers with 4K resolution in Windows Spotlight [a] 10.0.22598.100 [49] Dev Channel and Beta Channel: April 15, 2022 10.0.22598.200 [49] Dev Channel and Beta Channel: April 19, 2022 10.0.22610.1 [50] Dev Channel and Beta Channel: April 29, 2022 — Updates to the Family Safety widget
Windows 10 was released with an updated version of the Windows Store, which merged Microsoft's other distribution platforms (Windows Marketplace, Windows Phone Store, Xbox Video and Xbox Music) into a unified store front for Windows 10 on all platforms, offering apps, games, music, film, TV series, [13] [14] themes, [15] and ebooks. [16]
On August 2, 2016, Microsoft released the Xbox One S, which supports 4K streaming and has an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive, but does not support 4K gaming. [89] On November 10, 2016, Sony released the PlayStation 4 Pro , which supports 4K streaming and gaming, [ 90 ] though many games use checkerboard rendering or are upscaled 4K. [ 91 ]
Bing Desktop 1.3.475.0. Microsoft released a beta version of Bing Desktop, a program developed to allow users to search Bing from the desktop, on April 4, 2012. [80] The production release followed on April 24, supporting Windows 7 only. [81] Upon the release of version 1.1 in December 2012 it supported Windows XP and higher. [82]
The collection was released on Steam and Microsoft Store on December 3, 2019. Only Halo: Reach was playable at launch, but subsequent titles became available over the following year. [49] 343 Industries had set out to have the collection playable on PC before the launch of Halo Infinite in 2021. [50]