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Originally Posted by HarryT
To slightly correct my previous post, in which I said that Media Player isn't going away in Windows 10, one component of it which is disappearing is the DVD player: Windows 10 won't ship with a DVD video player (although it will still be able to read DVD data discs). If you want to play DVDs on your PC you'll need to install a 3rd-party player in order to do so.
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I actually find that decision to be quite curious. Microsoft's rational for removing DVD playback is probably quite sound. Shipping it by default means increased licensing fees. It is probably prohibitively expensive to develop an add-on that will be purchased by a limited number of people. On the other hand, a media player that supports a limited number of formats is hardly desirable. It forces users to focus upon what software they need to get a task done rather than on performing the task at hand.