So, while I’m personally OK with most of Microsoft’s OS releases over the years, I know that not everyone is.  Windows 11 in particular has raised a few hackles – not, to be clear, to the same extent that Vista or Windows 8 did, but it’s definitely gotten some people grouchy.

Still, Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, so they must be making enough people happy.   I’m typing this right now while sitting in front of a Windows 11 PC, in fact, and I am regularly happy when comparing the price of games for it to the price of games for consoles.

We will not, at this time, compare the price of my GPU to the price of a console because that is not something I would like to address at this point in time.

Ahem.  Moving on.

With their 50th anniversary, they put out a very nice set of retro wallpapers, which you can download directly from their server, here:

https://unlocked.microsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/50th-windows-wallpapers.zip

I particularly like the Solitaire wallpaper.

There’s just one thing.  If you unzip that wallpaper pack, you might notice a suspicious extra folder.

Now, it’s probably bad manners to point this out, but that _MACOSX folder means that this zip file originated on, well, a Mac.  Surely there are some graphic artists at Microsoft who actually work on Windows, right?

Right?