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[10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]
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 on later releases of Windows.
Windows 7 introduces a desktop slideshow feature that periodically changes the desktop wallpaper based on a user-defined interval; the change is accompanied by a smooth fade transition with a duration that can be customized via the Windows Registry. [9] The desktop slideshow feature supports local images and images obtained via RSS. [10] [11] [12]
Background Switcher added a slideshow tab to Display properties and allows automatically changing the desktop wallpaper periodically. Although, Background Switcher is retired, a replacement, Wallpaper Changer , is available from Microsoft.
Microsoft did also release a Windows Media Player visualization and skin at one time [when?]. The skin was released in Experience Pack for Tablet PC and was available for free, [18] but the installer only installed it on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition devices, for which it was licensed.