Windows Media Player 8

Windows Media Player for Windows XP, or Windows Media Player 8, is a version of Windows Media Player released in 24 August 2001 and included in the RTM release of Windows XP and the Service Pack 1 release of that operating system. It was not released for any other version of Windows, however it is possible to install it on Windows 2000 using workarounds.

It was replaced by the Windows Media Player 9 Series in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows XP Service Pack 2. According to Microsoft this was done to fix security vunerabilities which were not present in Windows Media Player 9 Series. To restore Windows Media Player 8 on Windows XP, Microsoft advised to uninstall the Service Pack.