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Microsoft Updates Windows XP N
News As part of its effort to assuage European authorities, Microsoft has made changes to its Windows XP N -- the slimmed-down version of the operating system it was ordered to offer last year. Microsoft had originally wanted to call the software...
[June 9, 2005, 10:20]
Microsoft Updates Windows XP N
Talkback What a farce, but predictable nevertheless. Roll on the European Patents Directive to finish the job.
[June 9, 2005, 17:00]
A Few Minor Windows XP Glitches
Blog As I expect Vista SP1 to be available soon, and XP SP3 not long after that, I suppose I will be playing "disc jokey" with my laptop again before long. These problems are occurring now, with the laptop running XP Professional.
[March 14, 2008, 15:03]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
News Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens all claimed to have no firm plans to install Windows XP N, citing a lack of customer demand. A Dell spokesman said on Tuesday that the company has no plans to install Windows XP N on its computers...
[June 15, 2005, 14:35]
Media Player-less Windows Finally Named
News The product, which Microsoft had wanted to be called Windows XP Reduced Media Edition, will now be known as either Windows XP Home Edition N or Windows XP Professional Edition N. Among other options Microsoft suggested were Windows XP Not...
[March 29, 2005, 8:55]
Still 'no Demand' For Media-player-free Windows
News Microsoft started offering a version of Windows without a bundled media-player, known as Windows XP N, in June this year, to comply with last year's antitrust ruling by the European Commission. Before Windows XP N was released, the only PC vendor...
[November 18, 2005, 14:30]
EC Awaits Microsoft's Full Antitrust Compliance
News Last week Microsoft agreed to call the unbundled product either Windows XP Home Edition N or Windows XP Professional Edition N, rather than Windows XP Reduced Media Edition - Microsoft's original suggestion.
[April 4, 2005, 17:15]
Lifebook S6510 - Part 3; Networking, Software And Drivers
Blog There is practically nothing on the Fujitsu support web site for it; a BIOS update, which was already installed on mine, and a driver update for Windows XP, which doesn't interest me because I'm running Vista.
[January 3, 2008, 13:43]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback XP works perfectly totally fine. The title bar of every window now looks 1.5 times the height that it was under XP and I can't change it. for some unexplicable reason so that if you need to go back there later you have to reclick that fine print...
[January 6, 2008, 23:41]
Linksys WRT350N Wireless-N Gigabit Router With Storage Link
Blog I suppose that this might become standard with Windows XP SP3, but I don't know that for sure. It is worth noting that while Windows Vista has WPA2 security included, it has not yet been made a standard part of Windows XP.
[January 18, 2008, 10:04]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
News PC World, the UK's largest computer retail chain, confirmed on Monday that it had no immediate plans to sell Windows XP N, which will be available to retailers from this coming Friday. The European Commission's attempt to increase competition by...
[June 27, 2005, 17:15]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback I suppose the EU's legal requirement that MS provide a version of XP without Windows Media Player means that MS is blocked from welding Media Player into the OS. That might be considered a Good Thing in the long run, even if no-one buys XP-N.
[June 27, 2005, 18:45]
Media Player-less Windows Finally Named
Talkback How about Windows XP Home/Pro "-MP" (seems logical really.don't know about "N"!
[March 29, 2005, 10:11]
Look 'n' Stop Personal Firewall
Downloads Look 'n' Stop is detected as a trusted firewall by the Microsoft Windows Security Center (Windows XP SP2). Look 'n' Stop is the best in its class security application to prevent spyware. Secured by Look 'n' Stop, your PC also becomes fully...
[September 5, 2006, 2:16]
UPXcmd
Downloads Features: Compress and reduce size of executable files; Easy and fully functional GUI for UPX; Compress or decompress more than one files with one click; Ability to choose filetypes to compress; Compress your files without replacing, no data loss...
[March 3, 2008, 23:46]
RQ Search And View
Downloads RQ Search and View is a simple utility used to search and view text in files for Microsoft Windows 98/XP. File formats supported are text files with Windows, Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML (Web pages). Use it every day to check local copy of web site...
[January 15, 2007, 1:31]
What Does Microsoft EU Decision Mean For Vista And Longhorn?
Blog In his press conference earlier, Microsoft Brad Smith announced that Microsoft would continue to sell the Windows Media Player-free versions of Windows - Windows XP-N and Vista-N. All in all the Windows-N decision was a pretty toothless one from...
[September 17, 2007, 14:45]
Crime, But No Punishment For Microsoft
Leader Take Windows XP N, the version of XP without the Media Player. By allowing Microsoft to offer this at the same price as full XP, the EC has ensured that Microsoft will not only suffer no loss of revenue whatsoever - not a single penny - but can say...
[June 17, 2005, 13:25]
HP: Reward IT Managers For Green Thinking
News Interestingly, the dx2250 supports Windows XP as well as Windows Vista. The fact that customers can load XP onto the machine will please some critics of Vista who claim the operating system is extremely power hungry.
[March 30, 2007, 16:28]
Asus Reveals Specs, Pricing For Eee 904 And 1000
News The 904 comes only in a Windows XP flavour and has an 80GB hard drive and 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connectivity. The Windows XP version of the 1000 also uses an 80GB hard drive and weighs 1.45kg. The £269 Eee 904, which comes only in a Windows XP flavour...
[July 10, 2008, 13:20]
