May not be official while it is a stock photo, it has not been found in any leaked demos May not be official, as it has not been found in any leaked demos despite the metadata crediting a 'Hillel C.', Hillel Cooperman has confirmed that he never owned the camera it was taken with In some cases, there is no way to know for sure however they will be listed here until proven they are fake. Also, please note that some of these wallpapers may not even be official at all.

In some cases, the files within the demos have the UI elements already included on them. This list is incomplete, as there are demos that have not yet saw the light of the day, plus many wallpapers are covered by UI elements making them very difficult to reverse search. Each of these have their own unique wallpapers, with a few of them being recycled from previous versions of Windows such as Windows 2000 and XP, along with Microsoft Plus! 98. The other wallpapers remained the same as XP's throughout this phase of Longhorn's development.ĭue to its low quality and it being early in development, it is likely this photo was merely taken from the internet, while the saturation was boostedīuild 4050 (private/Lab06, October 22 compile)Ī cropped version of a Longhorn Los Angeles Convention Center wallpaperīuild 4067 (private/lddm dev tech(davidmo).040212-1646) to 4082Īs a result of Longhorn's ambitiousness, Microsoft produced a large amount of Macromedia Director demos to demonstrate the many ideas the company had for Longhorn. Jenny Lam was involved in the wallpaper selection process, like with post-reset Longhorn/Vista. All of these wallpapers share the same filename, Bliss.bmp, however this wiki refers to them just as default wallpapers to avoid confusion. From late 2003 onward they would license rights managed images from Getty Images. Windows XP's wallpaper set appears in every Longhorn build until 5355 these are not listed here.ĭuring late 2002 and early-mid 2003 the default wallpapers were auroras created by Microsoft's own designers, including Robert Stein.

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