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.

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.

Bugs

 * It is possible to install this version of Windows Media Player on Windows 2000 even if it was made for RTM release of Windows XP and the Service Pack 1 release of that operating system only.