14 DAY TRIAL // Even before it rebranded its search engine, Bing, killing off Live Search, Microsoft debuted an experiment that turned into a de facto characteristic of its decision engine. Users of Bing have undoubtedly noticed that the search engine features a different picture every day as a background. Some of the Bing wallpapers are absolutely superb examples of photography and Microsoft has went as far as selecting 20 items that were featured at one time as a background for the search/decision engine, and offering a downloadable pack designed to help end users customize their Windows 7 operating system.
Bing's Best is one of the extra Windows 7 themes that Microsoft released on October 22nd, 2009, concomitantly with the general availability of the platform. Two dozen background images from Bing are now available for download via a single Feature Theme for the successor of Windows Vista. Users only need to download the pack and execute the file in order to personalize their machine with Bing wallpapers. Of course, the Bing’s Best theme pack only works with Windows 7.
“And to show our support for Windows 7, I’m excited to announce our first ever downloadable wallpaper theme for Windows 7 – Bing’s Best. A lot of people ask us for desktop versions of our images. And now you (and your friends, and your family, and your casual acquaintances) can get them!” Stephanie Horstmanshof, Microsoft Editorial lead, noted. “The homepage team selected the top images from June, July, and August, and then worked with the Windows 7 personalization team to create a theme pack featuring these 20 gorgeous wallpapers.”
But, by all means, don’t stop at Bing’s Best. There are an additional 13 Windows 7 themes that went live on October 22nd, some of them representing collaborations with various companies, which resulted in Ducati, Ferrari and Porsche themes. A Windows 7 theme comes complete with a range of settings on top of the wallpapers, including Windows Aero tweaks and even new sounds.