Windows Media Player 11 released

As I'm sure most of you know Windows Media Player 11 was released yesterday. WMP11 is of course available for Windows XP in addition to being preinstalled in Windows Vista. As an out of band release for XP, and a pretty major one at that, WMP11 has integrated genuine Windows validation into its setup much like IE7. The integration of genuine validation into the setup process is as easy for WMP11 as it was for IE7. The first screen cap below one is the very first screen of the setup wizard. Because I ran this setup on a genuine system this is the only validation step I need to take. 

And once validation has completed the process simply continues with the license terms which further reinforce the importance of having a validly licensed copy of Windows on which to install WMP.