This week's Microsoft news recap is here with plenty of Build 2025 announcements, more Xbox games for PlayStation 5, new Windows 11 preview builds, remastered Windows 95 wallpapers, and more.

Charles O’Rear, the photographer behind the iconic Windows XP ‘Bliss’ wallpaper, has expressed mixed feelings about the deal that made his image one of the most viewed ever. In 1996, while visiting ...

Over on Microsoft’s Windows blog, Microsoft has published a basket of different wallpapers for Windows PCs, which you can download here for free. They’re actually cooler than you think!

To commemorate Microsoft's 50th anniversary on Friday, April 4, 2025, we are distributing wallpapers of 'Windows' most memorable moments' created by Microsoft designers who are enthusiastic fans ...

Microsoft has many good ideas for Windows 11 that often do not ship, and one of them was "Dynamic Wallpapers," which, as the name suggests, could have made the wallpaper dynamic, similar to third ...

In context: Nearly every major operating system comes with sleek live wallpapers. iOS has them, Android does too, and so does macOS. Microsoft had been working on a similar feature for Windows 11 ...

A former Microsoft designer has revealed what Windows 11’s dynamic wallpapers look like. The feature was supposed to ship last year, but has likely been canceled now.

How to Remove Bing Wallpaper on Windows 11: A Step-by-Step Guide. For users of Windows 11 who are looking to change or remove the Bing wallpaper that appears on their desktop or browser homepage ...

When Microsoft debuted its landmark operating system Windows XP in the fall of 2001, the default desktop wallpaper “Bliss” ended up becoming the most viewed photograph in the world.You might ...

Windows 11's Spotlight feature is a pretty nice way to jazz up your desktop background with different wallpapers and fun facts when you hover over the image icon, but it takes up a lot of space.

Lively Wallpaper is a fantastic app for adding animated wallpapers to your Windows 11 desktop. It’s free, open-source, and available on the Microsoft Store and GitHub. Here’s a simple guide to ...

It looks like Windows 11 could get a new official default wallpaper, according to leaked images that have emerged just before Microsoft Build 2024, the company’s annual conference for developers ...