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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]
PC Vendors Snub Antitrust Altered Windows
News Microsoft will make an updated version of Window XP N available on Wednesday, but none of the computer manufacturers that ZDNet UK spoke to are considering pre-installing it on desktops or laptops. Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens...
[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]
XP Security Support Will Continue Until 2014
Talkback I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that security support for XP will end shortly. According to the MS lifecycle, XP will be in mainstream support until April 2009 (probably within a year of the release of Vista's successor), and in...
[November 19, 2007, 18:32]
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]
Microsoft Vs EC: The Story So Far
News Microsoft bravely bore the disappointment of not being able to name the product, "Reduced Media Edition" — instead being asked by the Commission to call it Windows XP N — and equally bravely bore the disappointment that no-one wanted to buy...
[April 24, 2006, 13:20]
Lifebook S6510 - Part 3; Networking, Software And Drivers
Blog I'm planning to write one more time about Vista and XP, making a side-by-side comparison of the S2110, now running very nicely with XP Professional, and the S6510 with Vista. There is practically nothing on the Fujitsu support web site for it; a...
[January 3, 2008, 13:43]
2008-01-06 Vista Is A Downgrade.
Talkback The title bar of every window now looks 1.5 times the height that it was under XP and I can't change it. XP works perfectly totally fine. 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 You have to download and install Windows XP update KB917021 to add WPA2 support. I suppose that this might become standard with Windows XP SP3, but I don't know that for sure. Anyway, I have installed that update on a couple of XP systems, and WPA2...
[January 18, 2008, 10:04]
Vista Vs. XP: The Final Retreat
Blog So, I spent the morning putting back in the disk with XP Pro, which I had swapped out at the beginning of this month when I got Vista SP1 to install. XP. My Fujitsu Lifebook S6510 is running Windows XP Professional again, and I have no intention of...
[April 24, 2008, 20:19]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback Smithy: Microsoft must offer XP-N for sale in Europe, or it's back to Anti-Trust Court and very large fines. That would seem like a very good reason for Microsoft not to integrate Media Player into XP.
[June 28, 2005, 1:22]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
News The European Commission's attempt to increase competition by forcing Microsoft to offer a version of Windows XP without its Media Player looks increasingly forlorn, with many retailers and computer resellers now having indicated they won't sell...
[June 27, 2005, 17:15]
Media Player-less Windows Finally Named
Talkback Windows XP Professional Edition N. Do they even realize that shortens to: WinXP ProN? Of course, one has to be geeky enough to know, and admit to knowing, what "pron" means.
[March 30, 2005, 20:37]
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]
Pricing Scuppers Media Player-free XP
Talkback Chris Rankin :" 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...
[June 27, 2005, 23:17]
SuDokuDotNet
Downloads Windows XP look n feel with online help file. SuDokuDotNet will provide puzzles either randomly or entered from scratch. It prints a worksheet for a puzzle including the legal numbers that can be inserted in each cell of the grid.
[August 23, 2006, 22:31]
D&MA Hancock SuDoku Solver
Downloads Windows XP look n feel with online help file. SuDoku Solver will provide puzzles either randomly or entered from scratch. It prints a worksheet for a puzzle including the legal numbers that can be inserted in each cell of the grid.
[July 29, 2005, 0:16]
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]
