Windows 11 SE wallpaper now available through the Microsoft Store
There’s now another way to pick up the Windows 11 SE wallpaper.
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What you need to know
Windows 11 SEis Microsoft’s new operating system built for K-8 education. It’s optimized for affordable PCs and has several features for education. It also has a wallpaper that’s proven quite popular. That colorful wallpaper is now available for free through the Microsoft Store.
The default background that ships with Windows 11 SE is a colorful design with elements similar to the Bloom wallpaper onWindows 11. The folds of the Windows 11 SE wallpaper feature a palette similar to rainbow sherbet. As soon as Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 SE, people online asked about its wallpaper.
Last week,WallpaperHubmade the Windows 11 SE background available, but now people have another way to grab it. The EDU wallpapers pack in the Microsoft Store comes straight from Microsoft and makes it easy to theme your PC.
The wallpaper already has over 20,000 downloads on WallpaperHub, so there appears to be demand for it. The WallpaperHub listing has multiple resolutions and aspect ratios available, so it may be a better option than the Microsoft Store listing at this point.
Windows 11 SE will ship on budget-friendly devices for education, including theSurface Laptop SEandDynabook E10-S. Acer, ASUS, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, JK-IP, Lenovo, and Positivo will also release laptops with the new OS.
Windows 11 SE comes pre-loaded with Microsoft Office. It’s also “cloud backed,” meaning it will mirror saved documents to the cloud. The operating system also has features built to ease management by IT departments, including working with Intune for Education.
Windows 11 SE has a colorful default wallpaper. You can now download that background to use on any PC you’d like.
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