Windows XP (wallpaper)

Windows XP is the branding wallpaper included in Windows XP, although Bliss serves as the default wallpaper. It depicts a CGI Windows logo on a blue (green in Home Edition) background along with the Windows XP wordmark and the edition the user is using in the bottom right corner. It was either created by Microsoft's own graphic designers, or by contractors that worked internally at Microsoft. Between builds 2485 and 2532, this was set as the default wallpaper (Home Edition build 2498 uses the same wallpaper as Professional); it was later reverted back to Bliss, which had previously served as the default wallpaper between builds 2465 to 2481. Prior to build 2485, a completely different branding wallpaper was used, consisting of the Windows XP logo over a white-blue radial gradient.

The wallpaper does not appear in Windows XP Starter Edition and late 2000s Embedded editions of XP, which have different branding wallpapers. A similar wallpaper appears in most editions of Server 2003, which is grey instead and uses the logo corresponding with its version. Home Server uses a Vista-esque aurora as its branding wallpaper instead.

Client editions
All of these are blue, with the exception of the Home Edition wallpaper. Note that Version 2003 of 64-bit Edition and Professional x64 Edition are based on Server 2003's codebase, but are branded as XP and are client releases so their wallpapers are included here. Interestingly, the French version has the edition names translated, which is not known to have been the case for other localized versions of Windows, which just use English titles.