Windows Media Player 12 is the most recent version of Windows Media Player as of July 2009. Besides, Windows Media Player can also rip music from and copy music to compact discs. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued. It can be seen as a part of Microsoft Windows. and it aims to provide video and audio playback to Windows OS users. It is a special player device developed by Microsoft Inc.
Windows Media Player is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices.