MS, EU Agree on Name for Windows Sans Media Player

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has agreed with European Union antitrust regulators on a new name for Windows software sold in Europe. Officials at the U.S. software giant said they had accepted the European Union's offer to call the European version of Windows sold without Media Player "Windows XP Home Edition N" - with "N" standing for "not with media player." Microsoft's "XP Professional Edition" will also include the "N" for versions sold without the media player. The prior name for the OS was Windows XP Reduced Media Edition." News.com also mentions the choice.

How about

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows Reduced Monopoly System?

Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now when can we get Windows XP Reduced Internet Explorer edition?

Henceforth known as

[unsinged int]

Windows XP Home Edition Neutered

Re:How about

[FidelCatsro]

Windows RMS has a very nice ring to it in a GNU kind of way

Re:Henceforth known as

[violent.ed]

how about... Windows XP Home Neutering: Where Do You Want To Surf Today?

Windows XP Home Edition say what?

[frovingslosh]

"Windows XP Home Edition N"

As a black man I find this use of the N word extremely offensive.

Re:How about

[ImaLamer]

It's GNU/Windows thank you very much!!!

Re:How about

[Anonymous Coward]

You must be Gnu here :)

Some choice

[GomezAdams]

You can get your Steaming Crap with Chunks of Corn(tm) or Steaming Crap with Bits o' Straw(tm) but you're still getting a bowlful of Steaming Crap(tm).

Re:What the N really stands for...

[mirko]

Thanks, I thought it stood for Netscape or for Napoleon !

Windows XP ProN?

[davisk]

That, is marketing genius.

Re:Already been done

[EvilCabbage]

You're new here, right?

Re:What about Win XP 64 ?

[0x461FAB0BD7D2]

For now, yes, until they can figure out how to sell Windows XP N64 without Nintendo finding out.

Missing Letter

[PalmMP3]

Looks like in honor of the missing media player, it was decided that the story should be missing a letter somewhere:

The prior nme for the OS

Who would've thought a Slashdot article could have such an obvious spelling -- oh wait, nevermind... ;-)

Re:I support Microsoft most of the time

[PalmMP3]

The glitzy application isn't what keeps us coming back. It's the solid foundation underneath that's important.

Uhhhhhh... are you absolutely sure that that's Windows you're talking about? Somehow, even with my vivid imagination, I fail to see how "solid foundation" could have any relation to Windows (or any Micro$ux product, for that matter)...

Re:How about

[Anonymous Coward]

How about Windows Reduced and Expensive Computer Kit...or WRECK?

That's much more apt ;)

Windows XP Ni

[Anonymous Coward]

And then they will call it

Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG [imdb.com]

Re:Windows XP Home Edition say what?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you assuming that black people cannot afford a computer and access to the internet, and aren't competent enough to read and understand slashdot?

Re:Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

Try telling that to the French!

Re:Windows XP ProN?

[deblau]

Which is all the more ironic, because it comes without a media player.

Re:Windows XP Home Edition say what?

[Linker3000]

Reminds me of the time I was explaining the ins and outs of Novell Netware's Directory Service Admin tools to a class of students and one guy asked me why there were no black people icons for users and groups.

I emailed Novell a few times but never got a reply.

Ha!

[Compact Dick]

what do you think Joe "EU" Sixpac will pick?

Windows.XP.Pro.TR.with.SP2.Corporate.Edition.(VRMP VOL_TR).by.tosbaqa.iso

Re:Henceforth known as

[10101001 10101001]

Home Edition Neutered

I'd like to be the first to mod down this part of the name as redundant.

Imagine a system administrator...

[SolitaryMan]

Imagine a system administrator having two groups of users: white and black :)

Re:How about

[Anonymous Coward]

20% Illiterate
80% Can't use paragraphs

You, Sir, are a 'tard.

Re:Henceforth known as

[Capt James McCarthy]

It's all about marketing....

Windows XP Home Edition N your business
Windows XP Home Edition N your network
Windows XP Home Edition N your government
Windows XP Home Edition N your ass

Windows XP Home Edition N^2

[krunk4ever]

It'll be called Windows XP Home Edition N^2 (N-squared)
not with media player
not with internet explorer

Re:Henceforth known as

[thepoch]

I think that goes well (or not) with

Windows XP Professional Edition N aka

Windows XP ProN!

Re:Windows XP Home Edition say what?

[Anonymous Coward]

As a black man I find this use of the N word extremely offensive.

Don't worry, it stands for Niggardly.

As in, the EU is niggardly when it comes to Windows.

Re:How about

[werewolf1031]

So um, the OS is the car, the radio is Media Player (or viable substitute thereof, eg. Pioneer), the gas is the file format (but it's common to all cars??), the road is the Internet...

No wait, the GPS anti-theft is the Internet...

I mean... wait, Microsoft has a proprietary gasoline format that won't run in other stereos?!

Ok, so if I buy a car from Microsoft and replace the stereo with a Mac, I can't run Linux on it? And I have to pay Ford to drive it on their roads?? And I have to be digitally signed to be the car's driver?!

I'm lost...

Re:How about

[McFadden]

Well, just imagine the situation where the company you bought a car from was in a position where they were holding the car business by the throat, and effectively shoving the stereo down yours

I find it hard to imagine anyone shoving a stereo down my throat. My teeth would get in the way.

Please this version!

[MitchlBuckeye]

I want to buy the Windows XP Reduced Security Flaws version.

Re:Windows XP Home Edition N^2

[SunFan]

I'm running Windows XP Home Edition N^M! Oh, almost forgot, I need to update Firefox in the Windows /usr/local directory. Microsoft thinks of everything, these handy directories for my stuff are awesome.