As
the capabilities of computers have grown increasingly sophisticated, their
ability to deliver a true entertainment experience has grown too. Now Windows XP
takes it to the next level. As a gaming platform, it provides a rich, immersive
experience, accommodating multiple players across networks with ease, along with
ever more fantastic graphics and a complex array of sounds and music to add new
dimensions. In the same way, Windows XP handles movies like no other operating
system ever before. Windows Media™ Player for Windows XP is the first media
player with integrated full-screen video controls for all supported video types,
including Windows Media Video and DVDs.
The Best Gaming Experience
Windows XP takes advantage of DirectX® 8,
Microsoft’s full-featured, robust game-playing platform that enhances graphics
and sound and gives you a wide range of choices for games. With Internet
Connection Sharing, all the computers in your home network can share the same
Internet connection, enabling multi-player gaming over the Internet along with
other members of your household on different computers. Windows XP is built on a
new Windows engine that delivers all the power, security, and reliability of
Windows 2000 with the best features of the friendly, game-ready consumer
operating systems collectively known as Windows 9x.
It's a rainy weekend and all the plans you made with your family have
been washed out. You were expecting to get your kids outdoors for a few hours to
burn off some of their inexhaustible energy but that's not going to happen now.
You tell your kids it's OK to go on the Internet for a game of Age of Empires.
Within minutes, they have met two others in the MSN Gaming Zone and are engaged
in a complex struggle to establish competing civilizations and survive. Why do
you get the feeling this is what they wanted to do anyway?
Watch DVDs on Your Computer
Windows Media Player for Windows XP
introduces industry-first features such as DVD playback support* with integrated
full-screen video controls for all supported video types, including Windows
Media Video and DVDs. Windows Media Player for Windows XP also displays the
film’s cover art, chapter titles, and credits, just as you would see them on
your television.
The kids had a great time advancing civilizations, but now it's time
for dinner. After the kids go to bed, you planned to watch a movie.
Unfortunately, you and your wife are famous for never agreeing on what movie to
watch. She wants to watch her romantic comedy yet again, while you are really in
the mood for some of your favorite action scenes from "Gladiator." You
discuss it over the microwave dinner you throw together, and decide that
compromise is the better part of valor. She can watch her movie on the TV in the
living room, and you go back to your study to catch scenes from the Roman
spectacle on your computer.
* Playing DVDs requires that a compatible
DVD decoder be installed on your computer.
