Version 2.1, a minor update, is included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Version 2.0 was released as a free update in November 2002, and added a number of new features. Version 1.1 was included in Windows XP a year later, and included support for creating DV AVI and WMV 8 files. The first release of Windows Movie Maker was included with Windows Me on September 14, 2000. Movie Maker was officially discontinued by Microsoft on January 10, 2017, and it is replaced by Video Editor (formerly Microsoft Story Remix) which is built in with Microsoft Photos on Windows 10, and Clipchamp on Windows 11, which Microsoft acquired in September 2021. It later became a part of the Windows Essentials software suite, and offered the ability to create and edit videos as well as to publish them on OneDrive, Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube, Windows Live Groups, and Flickr. It was first included in Windows Me on September 14, 2000, and in Windows XP on October 25, 2001. Windows Movie Maker (known as Windows Live Movie Maker for the 20 releases) is a discontinued video editing software program by Microsoft. com /en-us /help /18614 /windows-essentials Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10