What is behind the Windows wallpaper creative story?

Will not forget the first our use of computer We nineties generation, when we started to use computers at the beginning of Alolveniat, specifically when it takes off Windows system and we met this screen green with a view cheerful, what we mean is a Windows XP system (Linux users have their excuse) asked a lot about the fact that the green truth or this background designed through a graphics programs.

Is this a real background or is it designed?

Over the years, it was not users of Windows only are they assert false designed by someone, but it was perfect and grainy background has a lot of users, but the money that many people know this picture real With the addition of a few simple touches her.
Let's take up the entire story, they are really a wonderful story:
The default for Windows XP background known as "Bliss", if you search for the name you will see hundreds of images that refer to this ancient background, an image captured by Charles Ourir in 1996, which took when he was going to meet his lover and from this point digital images is becoming more popular in our time.
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Charles Ourir work as a photographer with National Geographic Foundation, the work of a lot of other magazines, and photography from 1978 began and started filming the wine industry in this year and since 1998 has been associated with Auer company Corpus, which portray the Seattle-based company holds an exhibition of photographs and owned by the co-founder and Chairman the board of Directors previously at Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gates.
Ourir snapped this picture while driving his car in the territory famous for the cultivation of grapes in northern California, in the country of Sonoma and was on his way to meet his beloved Daphne, whom he married after Wim.charles-with-girfriend

Ourir presented this image to Corpus company, was licensed photo to use after loved Bill Gates a lot and bought this image Microsoft is a company that was about to launch the Windows XP system in 2001, paying him more than the amount can be received by the exchange for image thanks to Bill Gates impressive out, or it means that Bill Gates has offered to Ourir an offer he could not resist at all.



How it will look this place if it is to capture a picture of him now?

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When we look at the picture to remember the memories that brought us out and return to the same place where you took the picture and after the end of support for Windows XP from Microsoft and in full , Microsoft Corp. introduced a clip is visible on the life and image of the famous Ourir.