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MS, EU Agree on Name for Windows Sans Media Player

Posted by timothy on from the first-name-seemed-honest-enough-to-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has agreed with European Union antitrust regulators on a new name for Windows software sold in Europe. Officials at the U.S. software giant said they had accepted the European Union's offer to call the European version of Windows sold without Media Player "Windows XP Home Edition N" - with "N" standing for "not with media player." Microsoft's "XP Professional Edition" will also include the "N" for versions sold without the media player. The prior name for the OS was Windows XP Reduced Media Edition." News.com also mentions the choice.

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  1. How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows Reduced Monopoly System?

    1. Re:How about by FidelCatsro · · Score: 3, Funny

      Windows RMS has a very nice ring to it in a GNU kind of way

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    2. Re:How about by ImaLamer · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's GNU/Windows thank you very much!!!

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    3. Re:How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You must be Gnu here :)

    4. Re:How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      How about Windows Reduced and Expensive Computer Kit...or WRECK?

      That's much more apt ;)

    5. Re:How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      20% Illiterate
      80% Can't use paragraphs

      You, Sir, are a 'tard.

    6. Re:How about by werewolf1031 · · Score: 5, Funny

      So um, the OS is the car, the radio is Media Player (or viable substitute thereof, eg. Pioneer), the gas is the file format (but it's common to all cars??), the road is the Internet...

      No wait, the GPS anti-theft is the Internet...

      I mean... wait, Microsoft has a proprietary gasoline format that won't run in other stereos?!

      Ok, so if I buy a car from Microsoft and replace the stereo with a Mac, I can't run Linux on it? And I have to pay Ford to drive it on their roads?? And I have to be digitally signed to be the car's driver?!

      I'm lost...

    7. Re:How about by McFadden · · Score: 2, Funny
      Well, just imagine the situation where the company you bought a car from was in a position where they were holding the car business by the throat, and effectively shoving the stereo down yours

      I find it hard to imagine anyone shoving a stereo down my throat. My teeth would get in the way.

  2. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now when can we get Windows XP Reduced Internet Explorer edition?

  3. Henceforth known as by unsinged+int · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows XP Home Edition Neutered

    1. Re:Henceforth known as by violent.ed · · Score: 2, Funny

      how about... Windows XP Home Neutering: Where Do You Want To Surf Today?

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    2. Re:Henceforth known as by 10101001+10101001 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Home Edition Neutered

      I'd like to be the first to mod down this part of the name as redundant.

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    3. Re:Henceforth known as by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's all about marketing....

      Windows XP Home Edition N your business
      Windows XP Home Edition N your network
      Windows XP Home Edition N your government
      Windows XP Home Edition N your ass

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    4. Re:Henceforth known as by thepoch · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think that goes well (or not) with

      Windows XP Professional Edition N aka

      Windows XP ProN!

  4. Windows XP Home Edition say what? by frovingslosh · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Windows XP Home Edition N"

    As a black man I find this use of the N word extremely offensive.

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    1. Re:Windows XP Home Edition say what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Are you assuming that black people cannot afford a computer and access to the internet, and aren't competent enough to read and understand slashdot?

    2. Re:Windows XP Home Edition say what? by Linker3000 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Reminds me of the time I was explaining the ins and outs of Novell Netware's Directory Service Admin tools to a class of students and one guy asked me why there were no black people icons for users and groups.

      I emailed Novell a few times but never got a reply.

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    3. Re:Windows XP Home Edition say what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      As a black man I find this use of the N word extremely offensive.

      Don't worry, it stands for Niggardly.

      As in, the EU is niggardly when it comes to Windows.

  5. Some choice by GomezAdams · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can get your Steaming Crap with Chunks of Corn(tm) or Steaming Crap with Bits o' Straw(tm) but you're still getting a bowlful of Steaming Crap(tm).

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  6. Re:What the N really stands for... by mirko · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks, I thought it stood for Netscape or for Napoleon !

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  7. Windows XP ProN? by davisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    That, is marketing genius.

    1. Re:Windows XP ProN? by deblau · · Score: 5, Funny

      Which is all the more ironic, because it comes without a media player.

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  8. Re:Already been done by EvilCabbage · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're new here, right?

  9. Re:What about Win XP 64 ? by 0x461FAB0BD7D2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    For now, yes, until they can figure out how to sell Windows XP N64 without Nintendo finding out.

  10. Missing Letter by PalmMP3 · · Score: 0, Funny
    Looks like in honor of the missing media player, it was decided that the story should be missing a letter somewhere:

    The prior nme for the OS

    Who would've thought a Slashdot article could have such an obvious spelling -- oh wait, nevermind... ;-)

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  11. Re:I support Microsoft most of the time by PalmMP3 · · Score: 2, Funny
    The glitzy application isn't what keeps us coming back. It's the solid foundation underneath that's important.

    Uhhhhhh... are you absolutely sure that that's Windows you're talking about? Somehow, even with my vivid imagination, I fail to see how "solid foundation" could have any relation to Windows (or any Micro$ux product, for that matter)...

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  12. Windows XP Ni by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And then they will call it

    Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG

  13. Re:Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Try telling that to the French!

  14. Ha! by Compact+Dick · · Score: 3, Funny
    what do you think Joe "EU" Sixpac will pick?
    Windows.XP.Pro.TR.with.SP2.Corporate.Edition.(VRMP VOL_TR).by.tosbaqa.iso
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  15. Imagine a system administrator... by SolitaryMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a system administrator having two groups of users: white and black :)

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  16. Windows XP Home Edition N^2 by krunk4ever · · Score: 4, Funny

    It'll be called Windows XP Home Edition N^2 (N-squared)
    not with media player
    not with internet explorer

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    1. Re:Windows XP Home Edition N^2 by SunFan · · Score: 2, Funny


      I'm running Windows XP Home Edition N^M! Oh, almost forgot, I need to update Firefox in the Windows /usr/local directory. Microsoft thinks of everything, these handy directories for my stuff are awesome.

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  17. Please this version! by MitchlBuckeye · · Score: 2, Funny

    I want to buy the Windows XP Reduced Security Flaws version.