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Charles O'Rear (born 1941) is an American photographer best known for his photos of wine country and the image Bliss [1] that was used as a default wallpaper in Windows XP.
During the 1970s, he contributed to the Environmental Protection Agency’s DOCUMERICA project. O’Rear photographed for National Geographic Magazine for more than 25 years. He began his focus on winemaking in 1978 as an assignment to photograph the Napa Valley. Afterwards, he moved to Napa Valley and began photographing wine production around the world.[2][3] To date, O’Rear has provided photographs for seven wine books.
O'Rear's photograph of the rolling hills of Sonoma County[4], titled Bliss, was used as a standard wallpaper in Windows XP and as part of the Microsoft Corporation US$200 million advertising campaign, Yes you can. The image is also available as one of the many image options on Capital One credit cards, and has been subject to many parodies.
O'Rear has also taken photographs for Bill Gates' private Seattle stock photography company Corbis.[5]
[edit]Photo books
Chardonnay: Photographs from Around the World by Charles O'Rear and Michael Creedman (1999)
Napa Valley: The Land, The Wine, The People (2001)
Wine Country by John Doerper, Charles O'Rear (Compass American Guides)
Cabernet: A Photographic Journey from Vine to Wine by Michael Creedman and Charles O'Rear, Foreword by Robert Mondavi
Wine Places: The Land, the Wine, the People by David Furer and Charles O'Rear (2005)
Beautiful Wineries by Charles O'Rear and Thom Elkjer (2005)
Wine Aross America: A Photographic Road Trip by Charles O'Rear and Daphne Larkin (2007)
[edit]References
^ Younger, Carolyn (2010-01-18). "Windows XP desktop screen is a Napa image". Napa Valley Register. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
^ "Biography, Charles O'Rear". wineviews.com. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
^ "Bio, Charles O'Rear". tenspeed.com. Retrieved 2008-10-14.
^ "Ever wonder where the Windows XP default wallpaper came from?". thenextweb.com. Retrieved 2011-08-31.
^ http://www.corbisimages.com/Search#pg=Charles+O%27Rear\

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Possibly the earliest written reference to the site is to be found in the Annals of Ulster which records a siege of Dún Fother in 681. Dunnottar is also mentioned as a site for a battle between King Donald II and the Danish Vikings in 900 AD. A raid into Scotland via land and sea by King Aethelstan of Wessex in 934 included an attack on Dunnottar. William the Lion used Dunnottar as an administrative complex. King Domnall II was the first man to have been called rí Alban (i.e. King of Alba), when he died at Dunnottar in 900 AD. All his predecessors styled themselves as either King of the Picts or King of Fortriu. Such an apparent innovation in the Gaelic chronicles is construed by some[who?] to spell the birth of Scotland.
William Wallace is said to have led the Scots to victory over the English at Dunnottar in 1296. The outcome was completed by Wallace's imprisonment and incineration of the defeated English soldiers in the castle church.
By 1336 the resources of Edward III of England ordered Willam Sinclair, 8th Baron of Roslin to sail eight ships to the partially ruined Dunnottar for the purpose of rebuilding and fortifying to use as a forward resupply base for the northern campaign. Sinclair took with him 160 soldiers, horses, and a corps of masons and carpenters.[3] The English efforts were undone the same year when the Scottish Regent Sir Andrew Murray led a Scottish force that captured and again destroyed the defences of Dunnottar. By the close of the 14th century, Dunnottar was firmly under Scottish control, under the Clan Keith, whose chiefs were hereditary Earls Marischal of Scotland. The castle was rebuilt and augmented over generations by the Earls Marischal, including a large scale reconstruction under George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal (d. 1623), founder of Marischal College, Aberdeen (1593).
[edit]16th and 17th centuries
Early in the 16th century the Keiths added a new block to the east of the keep. Mary, Queen of Scots, visited Dunnottar in 1562 and again in 1564. In 1575 a stone gatehouse was constructed, which serves as the present day visitor's entrance. James VI was in residence for a portion 1580. From 1580 to 1650 the Earl Marischals converted a medieval style fortress into a decorative castle, constructing ranges of edifices around a quadrangle on the northeast. These resulted in luxurious living quarters. Between 1582 and 1584 a west wing to the fortress was erected. Also, during the 16th century, a new chapel was introduced. Then, early in the 17th century two other wings to the chapel were added.
In 1639 the owner of Dunnottar was William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal, who that year joined the Covenanters, in opposition to the established Episcopal Church and consequently to Charles I himself. James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, an ally of Marischal, attempted to return him to the Royalists. Unsuccessful in his attempt, Montrose attacked the fortress, and set fire to the fields. Nonetheless, Marischal held the fortress which sustained structural damage. Simultaneously the Covenanters met at a conference in nearby Muchalls Castle. Events at Dunnotar and Muchalls Castles were important during the English Civil War, and played a role in the reconciliation between the monarchy and the Covenanters.
Ruins of the castle in the late 18th century
King Charles II was received in a visit to Earl Marischal in 1650; however, in 1651 the English General Overton began a siege of Dunnottar seeking the prize of Scotland's Regalia, the royal crown, sword and sceptre used in the coronation of Charles II at Scone Palace. The Dunnottar fortress was defended by a small garrison of approximately 70 men. The small garrison held out against the besieging army for 8 months until heavy cannon were brought up. After 10 days of bombardment Governor Sir George Ogilvy of Barras surrendered to Overton's predecessor, General Morgan; however, the English were denied the Regalia, smuggled away during the siege by Anne Lindsay, related to Ogilvy by marriage.[4] The Honours of Scotland being hidden below the floor of Kineff Parish Church where they remained for 11 years.[5]

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Much like its predecessor, Windows XP Starter Edition, this edition sells in 139 countries such as Russia, Brazil, People's Republic of China, Nepal, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, and Thailand. Microsoft does not make it available in developed technology markets such as the United States, Canada, the European Union, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan (although users can install a 30 day trial-version from the 32-bit DVD).[4][5] Vista Starter has significant limitations, such as allowing a maximum of three applications with a user interface at once, not accepting incoming network connections, a watermark in the corner of the screen, and a physical memory limit of 1 GB. Unlike other editions, a 64-bit version of Starter Edition has not been released.[6] It supports AMD's Athlon XP, Duron, Sempron and Geode processors, and Intel's Celeron, Pentium III processors and certain models of Pentium 4. The usable portion of the hard disk has a limit of 250 GB. Starter Edition comes with some locale-specific desktop wallpapers not found in other editions of Vista.
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Windows Vista Home Basic
Similar to Windows XP Home Edition, Home Basic targets budget-conscious users not requiring advanced media support for home use. This edition lacks the Windows Aero theme with its translucent effects. However, it does support Desktop Window Manager compositing, just without the glass effect. Home Basic supports one physical CPU, but with multiple cores.[7] 64-bit Home Basic supports up to 8 GB of RAM.[8]
This edition includes Windows Firewall, parental controls, Windows Photo Gallery, and more functions.[9] Windows Movie Maker is included as well, but without support for working with high-definition video.[10]
Windows Vista Home Premium
Containing all features from Home Basic and similar to WinXP MCE, this edition also supports additional features aimed for the home market segment, such as support for HDTV and DVD-authoring. It also includes games, support for mobile and tablet PCs, for network projectors, for touchscreens, and for auxiliary displays (via Windows SideShow), and a utility to schedule backups. Home Premium supports 10 simultaneous SMB peer-network connections (compared to 5 in Home Basic).[11] The version of Meeting Space included also allows for interaction (in Home Basic, one may only view meetings). This edition has functionality comparable to that of Windows XP Media Center Edition. Like Home Basic, it supports only one physical CPU, but multiple cores.[7] 64-bit Home Premium supports up to 16 GB of RAM.[8]

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Microsoft's primary stated objective with Windows Vista was to improve the state of security in the Windows operating system.[7] One common criticism of Windows XP and its predecessors was their commonly exploited security vulnerabilities and overall susceptibility to malware, viruses and buffer overflows. In light of this, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced in early 2002 a company-wide "Trustworthy Computing initiative," which aimed to incorporate security into every aspect of software development at the company. Microsoft stated that it prioritized improving the security of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 above finishing Windows Vista, thus delaying its completion. Even though Windows Vista's security flaws were fixed, hackers made an array of new viruses that bypassed its security features.[8]
While these new features and security improvements have garnered positive reviews, Vista has also been the target of much criticism and negative press. Criticism of Windows Vista has targeted its high system requirements, its more restrictive licensing terms, the inclusion of a number of new digital rights management technologies aimed at restricting the copying of protected digital media, lack of compatibility with some pre-Vista hardware and software, and the number of authorization prompts for User Account Control. As a result of these and other issues, Windows Vista had seen initial adoption and satisfaction rates lower than Windows XP.[9] However, with an estimated 330 million Internet users as of January 2009, it had been announced that Vista usage had surpassed Microsoft’s pre-launch two-year-out expectations of achieving 200 million users.[10][11] At the release of Windows 7 (October 2009), Windows Vista (with approximately 400 million Internet users) was the second most widely used operating system on the Internet with an approximately 19% market share, the most widely used being Windows XP with an approximately 63% market share.[12] As of May 2010, Windows Vista's market share had an estimated range from 15% to 26%.[13][14] As of August 2012, Vista market share was 8.11%.[15]