In need of major updates for the past years, the application has remained stuck in time, while user needs have increased constantly. In this case, you can download the component separately and add it to the system.
It is also available in the freshly released Windows 8, although Microsoft has introduced nothing new in it since version 12, which is delivered in Windows 7 as well.īecause of the antitrust ruling against Microsoft, the company is now forced to ship the operating system without Windows Media Player in some countries. The life of Windows Media Player spans several Windows and, for a good stretch of time, it was willfully used for playing media files.
