All Windows 8 Wallpaper and Backgrounds Now Available

Continuing the tradition started long ago, now that Windows 8 RTM has been made available, we’re excited to announce the availability of the one part of Windows 8 everyone can agree is an excellent and welcome feature, and one we’re all more than willing and eager to welcome and embrace with open arms: the new official wallpapers and backgrounds!

There are some really great additions to the previous entries from the beta builds, though in a completely different vein from what we’ve come to expect from Windows Vista and Windows 7: not as much focus on natural beauty. In many ways, the Windows 8 wallpapers feel a lot more like the ones we first saw in the Longhorn beta: focus on effects, stressing modernity, and lots of color. Not a bad thing, of course… after all, the Longhorn wallpapers were what first started the whole craze.

Here are a few of our favorite new additions:


What do you think? Can you spot the resemblance to the wallpapers in our Longhorn backgrounds collection? Let us know what you think!

The official Windows 8 backgrounds from RTM and previous builds.

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  • 3 thoughts on “All Windows 8 Wallpaper and Backgrounds Now Available

    1. It would be great if you could offer them all in a single convenient to download ZIP file (including all the wallpapers from Longhorn and Windows 7 Betas)

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