Windows XP "Reduced Media Edition"

[CWatters]

I bet you can't wait to buy the latest version of XP

http://news.com.com/Regulators+tell...me/2100-1016_3-5555523.html?tag=st.rc.targ_mb

Regulators tell Microsoft there's plenty in a name
Published: January 28, 2005, 6:24 PM PST
By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Microsoft has agreed to rename the new slimmed-down version of Windows it's
preparing to release in Europe, after antitrust regulators there balked at
the title. Microsoft announced last month that it intended to use the name
"Windows XP Reduced Media Edition" for the program, which has, by order of
the European Commission, been stripped of the Media Player that's usually
included.
<snip>
Microsoft plans to sell the new product in Europe only and charge the same
price that the fuller-featured version fetches there.

 

[kurttrail]

I bet you can't wait to buy the latest version of XP

http://news.com.com/Regulators+tell...me/2100-1016_3-5555523.html?tag=st.rc.targ_mb

Regulators tell Microsoft there's plenty in a name
Published: January 28, 2005, 6:24 PM PST
By Alorie Gilbert
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Microsoft has agreed to rename the new slimmed-down version of
Windows it's preparing to release in Europe, after antitrust
regulators there balked at the title. Microsoft announced last month
that it intended to use the name "Windows XP Reduced Media Edition"
for the program, which has, by order of the European Commission, been
stripped of the Media Player that's usually included.
<snip>
Microsoft plans to sell the new product in Europe only and charge the
same price that the fuller-featured version fetches there.

Yeah, that would be like selling Diet Pepsi as Reduced Flavor Pepsi!

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[M]

So will Apple now be prevented from including its media player with new Macs
in Europe?

 

[kurttrail]

So will Apple now be prevented from including its media player with
new Macs in Europe?

If companies like REAL feel Apple is using their bundling their Media
Player to prevent Apple Users from using their Multimedia apps, then
they will complain to the EU, like they did with MS's Media Player.

Does Real even make an version of it's Media Player for OSX?

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[JerryMouse]

Microsoft plans to sell the new product in Europe only and charge the
same
price that the fuller-featured version fetches there.

I'd name it "Bureaucratically-Crippled."

 

[Alias]

|M wrote:
| > So will Apple now be prevented from including its media player with
| > new Macs in Europe?
|
| If companies like REAL feel Apple is using their bundling their Media
| Player to prevent Apple Users from using their Multimedia apps, then
| they will complain to the EU, like they did with MS's Media Player.
|
| Does Real even make an version of it's Media Player for OSX?
|
| --
| Peace!
| Kurt

Yep,

http://www.real.com/mac/?src=013105realhome_1_2_2_1_1_1,110404real_superpass_1_0_0_0_0_0

 

[CWatters]

I'd name it "Bureaucratically-Crippled."

I'm waiting to see the box artwork

What would you put on the front?

I'd put a really huge CE mark.

 

[Mikey]

I'm waiting to see the box artwork

What would you put on the front?

I'd put a really huge CE mark.

A picture of Bill Gates naked.