What is the story background of the Windows XP famous????

Months passed back to Windows users is the default green background field, which captured the beauty in the first of many times where they have installed Windows XP and then they change it after a few days because everyone is used, where it came from this picture real or is it modified?
Background, which bore the name of Bliss (meaning bliss or paradise), taken in 1996 before the advent of Windows XP or 2000 or even Windows "disaster," Millennium is taken in a province of Sonoma, California by photographer Charles or - Rir, who confirmed that this is Taken by the camera in medium quality and it is not modified, but real.
When sent him a question about the amount he received from Microsoft for the use of the image in months operating system Charles explained that he can not talk about the amount paid by Microsoft because of the agreement, including but hints indicate that the amount received quite a bit.
The image below is for the site after ten years, and as you can see, things changed and became a farmer fields of grapes.