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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.
In Windows 7, DreamScene was replaced by a "Desktop Slideshow" feature which produces slideshow background wallpapers. It does not support animated backgrounds or videos; however, it can still be enabled via third-party tools. In Windows 8, DreamScene was removed entirely, and has not returned to newer versions of Windows since (8.1, 10, 11).
Microsoft said they wanted not just to license the image for use as Windows XP's default wallpaper, but to buy all the rights to it. [10]: 3:37 [24] They offered O'Rear what he says is the second-largest payment ever made to a photographer for a single image; however, he signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.
Wallpaper Engine is an application for Windows with a companion app on Android [3] which allows users to use and create animated and interactive wallpapers, similar to the defunct Windows DreamScene. Wallpapers are shared through the Steam Workshop functionality as user-created downloadable content .
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
Microsoft Store is the primary means of distributing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps to users. Sideloading apps from outside the store is supported on Windows 10 on an opt-in basis, [33] but Windows 8 only allows sideloading to be enabled if the device is running the Enterprise edition of Windows 8 on a domain.
Initially, these apps were called "Trusted Windows Store apps," and later they were referred to as "Trusted Microsoft Store apps." Traditional programs designed to run on desktop computers were referred to as "desktop apps." With the release of the Windows 10, version 1903, there was a shift in the terminology.