Last 2 weeks, I’ve blogged a little about Microsoft Corp. released Windows® XP Home Edition N and Windows XP Professional N, the two versions of the Windows operating system created as part of the company’s compliance with the European Commission’s decision as part of its antitrust remedy of March 2004.
Unfortunately, four major PC makers have no plans to sell the media-player-free version of Windows due to lack of customer demand. They are Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo and Fujitsu Siemens.
A Dell representative added Tuesday that customers expect to have a media player included.
Quoted:
“Dell will continue to offer European customers Microsoft’s Windows operating systems including the Windows Media Player utility on Dimension desktops and Inspiron notebooks,” the representative said.
Same did HP and Lenovo : -
Quoted:
“At this time, HP has no plans to support Windows XP Professional Edition N on commercial notebooks in 2005,” said an HP representative.A Lenovo representative said: “At present we have no plans to preinstall Windows XP N on desktops and laptops. We will continue to monitor customer demand going forward.”
The only company that conceded it may preinstall Windows XP N was Fujitsu Siemens, which said it would do so on request.
Quoted:
“We will not preinstall as standard,” said a Fujitsu Siemens representative. “It will only be on special requests, and we have had no such request from any of our customers to date.”
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