Who needs 'Bliss' in Teams when you can have the real thing on a Bristol bus? Microsoft has recently taken to inflicting its greatest hits on users in the form of Teams backgrounds, which seem to serve no purposes other than reminding us that things were a bit better in the old days. Before Windows 10, before Microsoft 365, and before the company tried to ram subscriptions down our throats. Bliss-fully …
I've been using Windows almost daily since 1992, but I'm struggling to think of any Windows images that could make me feel even close to nostalgic in the way that a good old game or even a nerdy utility might.
A teapot from the "Pipes" screensaver, perhaps? I could always spot those from a mile away, whilst my colleagues all suffered from teapot-blindness..
I don't understand the clippy image. I mean they've obviously managed to lure it down to the basement, but it still seems to be alive??*
* If you can call the existential hell of your cheery calls of 'I see you're trying to write a letter' being met with a wall of expletives time after time living....
"The BIOS screen looks like the onboard chippery is a humble 1.66GHz unit; possibly a Celeron or maybe an Atom. The presence of XP does, however, make us think the former is the likely candidate. "
Didn't bother to look at the picture, huh? It's not the best quality, but it pretty clearly says it's an Intel Atom N455.
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