Re: Watch out for Media Player 11 - It's Awful!!!

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It's very much yesterdays news, however, maybe someone somewhere will
appreciate you're taking the time to point it out.

"Joe727" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Ben" <benjimen@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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A new level of pettiness

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"Joe727" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:30:28 -0500, "Joe727" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It's also exactly why the European Commisson forced Microsoft to
'unbind'
Windows Media Player from Microsoft Operating Systems. In the European
Union, when you buy a Microsoft Operating System, Windows Media Player
is
not part of it.

That statement is Nonsense (r).

You can opt to purchase "Windows XP N" with reduced media
functionality, if you prefer. Most people given the choice would have
as much functionality enabled as possible given the pricing is
identical. Hence windows N sells virtually no copies, and is just a
marketing exercise to keep the EU happy.

Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Read the article at the link you snipped without indicating you
performed a snip.

Here's the link again:

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7465&pagtype=all

If you don't like that article, there are many others you can Google.

Joe


How so? Nevermind, don't bother responding to that question - nobody
cares.

Anyway, if you, or the other poster don't want to Google for additional
info on the Euro Version of Windows, then here's a link to Microsoft's
website concerning it:

http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/editions/xp-home/edition-n.mspx

Joe





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