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![]() ![]() Although he took around 6000 shots, only two of them made it on Vista. She brought in Flickr photographer Darwish and sent him on a commissioned photo shoot in Oregon, USA. During the selection process she analyzed around 50GB worth of low-resolution images. Jenny Lam served as the creative director of Vista. It is worth noting that the widescreen wallpapers appear to have been cropped from their 1920x1440 counterparts, as opposed to recropping the original image. ![]() They are mostly at 1920x1440, while the widescreen ones are at 1920x1200, which would become the resolution of wallpapers in later Windows versions. Whereas Windows XP's wallpapers predominantly came from Corbis and Microsoft themselves, most of Vista's wallpapers are licensed stock photos from Getty Images which use a rights-managed license, with a few also originating from Corbis, Microsoft employees, amateur photographer Hamad Darwish and one from professional freelancer Michael Haber. ![]() The wallpaper set is the same across all editions, except Starter which has a unique wallpaper set with no wallpapers shared between the other editions. However, its design and aesthetic, including the wallpapers, were well received. Although Vista introduced many technological and visual improvements, it was poorly received due to its poor performance on computers of the time. Windows Vista, codenamed Longhorn, is an operating system released by Microsoft in 2006 to manufacturing, and to general availability in 2007. For pre-release wallpapers and pictures, see Longhorn. ![]()
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