The iconic green hill that graced the desktop screens of millions of Windows XP users for over a decade is a real place. The unedited photograph, taken in January 1996, depicts the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area of Sonoma County, California, United States. The image, titled "Bliss," has become one of the most recognizable and widely viewed photographs in history. … [Read more...] about The Story Behind the Windows XP Desktop: The Real Location of the Bliss Hill
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The Mars Orbiter is About to Upgrade From Windows 98
Fingers crossed they skip Vista. And XP. And Windows 8. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) instrument on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft is due to get a software update that will remove the instrument's prior operating system, Windows 98. The software upgrade is anticipated to breathe fresh life into the … [Read more...] about The Mars Orbiter is About to Upgrade From Windows 98