At last; a hack that I really appreciate.
Neowin has a snippet posting on how to Get Windows Media Player 10 to install on Windows 2003.
Link here.
Why do I appreciate this hack so much you might ask? Well I work on SharePoint, and I currently cant see it running on Windows XP, or justify having an extra test environment for me to play around with it.
Next hack to look forward to is to install MSN desktop search on Win2K3. What I know so far is that the contents of the setup (exe) can be extracted. That gives you 2 files, one of which is an msi. The contents of the msi can be unpackaged too. hmmm now thats a starting point aint it?
But the thing is, I really dont see the reason why Windows 2003 was locked out of these to products. Ofcourse its a server; I know how that argument goes, but since its locked down by default, and takes some real tweaks to make it work like your desktop, your average joe is not going to use it as his desktop machine. Its only geeks/techies that really need the server that are going need to be close to it. Could licensing be it?