14 DAY TRIAL // For years Microsoft has been waging a war with the European Commission, the stake being the presence of the Media Player solution in Windows. The giant was fined several times and received numerous warnings.
This is how the Windows XP N, no Widows Media Player version, was born. Starting with June 15, when it will be launched in Europe, all of Microsoft's unfair competition practices will come to an end.
After God knows how many delays and penalties, Microsoft finally succeeds to announce an exact date for Windows XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N. On June 15, it will start distributing them to system integrators, at first only English, French, German, Italian and Spanish versions. The retailing stage will start on July 1.