'N' to mark Windows without Media Player
PC World | at | by Mike
Microsoft has agreed to tag an "N" onto the name of the Windows XP versions without Windows Media Player that it was ordered to offer in Europe.
The European Commission chose the names "Windows XP Home Edition N" and "Windows XP Professional Edition N" after rejecting Microsoft's first choice, "Windows XP Reduced Media Edition," as unappealing.
The commission a year ago ordered Microsoft to ship a stripped-down version of Windows XP as one of the remedies in the European antitrust case against the software maker. By including Windows Media Player in Windows, Microsoft gained an unfair advantage over competing media players, the commission said.