Windows 10 users on the\u00a0Insider Program have reported that the latest update to the OS removes\u00a0Windows Media Player.<\/p>\n
According to BetaNews<\/strong><\/a>, the removal of the media player may be due to the abundance of high-quality\u00a0third-party alternatives – including VLC Media Player.<\/p>\n “The feature’s removal came to light when users installed KB4046355 on devices running Windows 10 version 1709 – the Fall Creators Update,” stated the report.<\/p>\n While the media player is removed from the OS, it is not completely binned.<\/p>\n The report stated that users can reinstall the player via the\u00a0Add a Feature setting.<\/p>\n Microsoft had not replied to requests for comment.<\/p>\n Windows 10 users on the\u00a0Insider Program have seen Windows Media Player removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[26970,46575],"class_list":["post-232649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-media-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232661,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232649\/revisions\/232661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Windows 10 Mobile no longer a focus for Microsoft<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"