After the European Commission's 2004 antitrust ruling, Microsoft was required to sell a version of Windows without its bundled Media Player, released in 2005 as 'Windows XP N.' The product was a near-total commercial failure: by April 2006 only about 1,787 copies had been sold — roughly 0.005 percent of Windows XP sales in Europe — and Microsoft acknowledged in court that no PC maker shipped it. Critics noted that Microsoft priced the stripped-down version the same as the full one and gave consumers no incentive to choose it, blunting the remedy regulators had imposed. The episode was cited as an example of how Microsoft complied with antitrust orders in form while undercutting them in practice.