Windows XP N – the windows without media player
Filed in: Microsoft — September 12th, 2005
Microsoft released Windows XP N. Like usual Windows XP we are using now,except that it does not include Windows Media Player, in order to satisfy the EU antitrust rule.
In total, almost 200 files were removed from XP Home and Professional Editions, though most of them are ancillary or support files. The most crucial missing pieces, of course, are Windows Media Player itself (WMPLAYER.EXE) and the “classic” version of WMP (MPLAYER2.EXE) that Microsoft still inexplicably ships in other XP versions.
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