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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. Before all the dumb comments start again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are allready some comments and there will be many more in the line of "and Joe Sixpack will not buy it".

    This might of course be true, but that's not what this case is about. This is about PC vendors being able to sell a fullblown XP PC without windows media player, but with an other media installed that takes it place.

    For example, some PC vendor could strike a deal with Apple to sell a PC and an ipod bundle and have itunes and quicktime included in XP and not the windows media player.

  2. Re:What the left hand takes away... by Tim+C · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That has nothing to do with the article. Furthermore, software patents would not allow only MS, but any company (and technically individual) to gain "thousands of monopolies".

    The software patent issue is far, far larger and more important than some "M$ versus teh world!" issue; please don't denigrate it to such.

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