The story behind the most famous computer photo

This week, Microsoft asked me to remind everyone majestic and powerful than it was before. A video issued by the company, told the story of the photo icon, which may have been the main view of your desktop in a given moment. "Bliss," a photo of a grassy hill under a blue sky, it was automatic appearance of all computers, which were within the Windows XP operating system that Microsoft issued in 2001. According videos issued by the company, what constitutes the most famous picture in computer history was not Photoshop. It is true that the image files Charles O'Rear made ​​in 1996:

"I was near my home, north of San Francisco," O'Rear said in the video. "It is true. It is not done with Photoshop effects. What I saw, I photographed. ", Said O'Rear, transmitted Classifieds. As I drove the car on the highway number 121 in California, former National Geographic photographer decided to pull over and make a picture. Some years later Microsoft paid for a very good picture of money.

Here is the same view in 2013: