Windows Media Player
Tech Talk #189–October 1, 2022 The first versions of Windows didn’t support playing music or watching videos. Of course, we’re talking Windows 1.0x and 2.0x here. Those early versions of Windows were Microsoft’s early attempts at implementing a computer graphical interface, first shown off at a COMDEX show in 1982 and even earlier at Xerox PARC. The early versions of Windows were not commercial successes, and it wasn’t until the 1990 release of Windows 3.0