GeekWire
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
The latest ugly holiday sweater from Microsoft features the Windows XP “Bliss” desktop image. Throwing things back to the early 2000s, the tech giant’s latest soft-wear features “Bliss,” the default desktop image in the time of Windows XP.
GeekWire
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
“Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still an intriguing one.
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The Verge
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
Microsoft’s video begins with Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 , which was originally released in 1982 for IBM-compatible PCs. The beginning of the video also demonstrates just how much PC sound cards have changed over the years. map out the real world into a virtual one. Several versions later, Flight Simulator 2000 appeared in 1999.
Gizmodo
JANUARY 30, 2022
Since the original Halo released in 2001, Microsoft has been trying for a long time to get Bungie and 343 Industries’ sci-fi shooter into live action beyond excellent commercials and webseries tie-ins. After several aborted attempts at making a movie, Halo is now finally a TV show for Paramount+ (with some speed bumps … Read more.
GeekWire
OCTOBER 25, 2021
Infinite, by comparison, is closer in spirit to the original 2001 Halo: Combat Evolved. The new trailer even makes sure to include a scene where the Chief runs a Jackal over with a Warthog, just for maximum 2001 nostalgia value. 8 for Windows PC, Xbox Series X|S, and the Xbox Game Pass.
SecureWorld News
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
Bluetooth has been around since 1994 as a wireless connectivity specification, but the first mobile phones did not appear with basic Bluetooth services until 2001. In fact, through the years, a wide variety of security patches have been published for Microsoft Windows as well as for Apple macOS and iPhones.
GeekWire
NOVEMBER 21, 2021
Fries came up through Microsoft in the ’80s, after the video game crash of 1983 forced him, as he put it onstage, to “get a real job” instead of pursuing game design. That put Fries in the position of leading the Xbox team, from the project getting approved on Valentine’s Day of 2000 up to its launch on Nov.
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