Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week, and it’s offering some new Windows wallpapers to mark the occasion. Over on Microsoft’s Windows blog, Microsoft has published a basket ...

To commemorate the milestone, the company has released eight limited-edition Windows wallpapers with themes familiar to anyone who's been around during the half-century run. Exploring the funnier ...

The wallpapers pay tribute to the firm's classic elements, including Windows, apps, and older wallpapers. Some notable product references include Windows, Solitaire, Mahjong, and Tulips wallpaper, ...

Windows XP shipped with a version measuring just 800 by 600 pixels. Anywho, Inside History has a series of follow up images taken from the same vantage point in 2006, 2020, 2024 and 2025.