Windows Media Player (2022)
Video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the media player featured in Windows 10 and 11. For the media player featured prior to Windows 11, see Windows Media Player.
Windows Media Player (or simply Media Player) is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and subsequently backported to Windows 10. It is the successor to Groove Music (previously Xbox Music), Microsoft Movies & TV and the original Windows Media Player. It started rolling out to Windows 11 Insider channels in November 2021 and then to all users starting in January 2022;[1][2] Windows 10 users followed suit in January 2023.[3]
Quick Facts Developer(s), Initial release ...
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Initial release | November 2021; 2 years ago (2021-11) |
Stable release | 12.0.22621.457 (September 20, 2022; 19 months ago (2022-09-20)) [±] |
Preview release | Windows 11: 11.2212.31.0
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Operating system | Windows 10, Windows 11 |
Predecessor | Groove Music Microsoft Movies & TV Windows Media Player |
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