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2. Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft. It was the direct successor to Windows XP, released five years earlier, which was then the longest time span between successive releases of Microsoft Windows.

3. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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   Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

4. Wallpaper (computing) - Wikipedia

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   Wallpaper (computing) 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. On a computer, wallpapers are generally ...

5. Windows XP visual styles - Wikipedia

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   Royale was originally made available in December 2004. On April 7, 2005, Microsoft New Zealand [15] had made the Royale theme and the wallpapers for the New Zealand theme available for download [16] for all editions of XP through Windows Genuine Advantage on its website but no longer exists in 2019.

6. Windows Ultimate Extras - Wikipedia

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   Windows Ultimate Extras were optional features offered by Microsoft to users of the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista and are accessible via Windows Update. Ultimate Extras replaced the market role of Microsoft Plus!, a product sold for prior consumer releases of Microsoft Windows. [ 1 ] According to Microsoft's Barry Goffe, the company's goal ...

7. Development of Windows Vista - Wikipedia

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   e. The development of Windows Vista (codenamed Longhorn) began in May 2001, [ 1 ] prior to the release of Microsoft 's Windows XP operating system, and continued until November 8, 2006, where it was released to manufacturing. Windows Vista was then released generally to retail on January 30, 2007.

8. Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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   Windows 7 is the successor to Windows Vista, and its version name is Windows NT 6.1, compared to Vista's NT 6.0; its naming caused some confusion when it was announced in 2008. [19] Windows president Steven Sinofsky commented that Windows 95 was the fourth version of Windows, but Windows 7 counts up from Windows NT 4.0 as it is a descendant of NT.

9. Windows Aero - Wikipedia

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   Windows Aero. A distinctive feature of Windows Aero showing "glass-like" window borders on Windows 7. Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open[1][2]) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows ...