Apple Ending Support for QuickTime For Windows, Users Should Uninstall

[smorrissey]

Yes and that comment is so enlightened.

Yeah, sorry for that but i saw like 3 different persons posting the same.

 

[LCPepper]

Oh no. Back to RealPlayer for me then.

Well, I for one, am going back to cassettes!

BEST MEDIUM EVER.

 

[flyingspur]

Monday Apple still has it available for windows. Still showing available in the update utility too.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/

What version of IE in the pic, 6? XP OS.

Vuneralbility, http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-16-242/

 

[Atlantico]

Windows now supports all media formats that QuickTime used to enable, Windows plays just about any mainstream format without the need to install anything, just out of the box.

For me, the only reason I have QuickTime installed and will continue to keep it installed, is that it is required by three of my favorite games, Myst (original), Riven and Silent Hunter II.

I don't care about security risks, since I won't open any QuickTime specific files and I don't have the QT browser plugin. Just the most basic stuff so those games can run.

 

[corinhorn]

Well this completely screws up a lot of my workflows. My desktop PC is faster than my Mac laptop so I sometimes use it for things like DaVinci Resolve which don't get realtime playback and then render back out on the Mac again to ProRes.

So the choices for me are to either continue using insecure software, pay >$4k for a Mac Pro with out-of-date hardware or redesign all of my workflows to not use Apple codecs or QuickTime containers.

I feel your pain. Apple has hosed me more than once this way; discontinuing a service/app that I had used for years. Irritating. For the past three or four years, I have repeatedly felt screwed by Apple. My workflow has been forced to change several times with each new iteration of software from them.

I use Quicktime all the time. I am one of those folks who have a Quicktime Pro registration for both Mac and Windows. It's not just for playback, so VLC won't cut it as an alternative.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Can I just install ProRes codecs only?
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Adobe After Effects still warns if you don't have it installed.

Because many people still shoot with ProRes

 

[loby]

Oh no not QuickTime!

Guess I'll just have to take my mind off it by firing up Windows 98, kicking back to Smashmouth and playing some Age of Empires II.

Now there's innovation! Good idea...retro stuff, the new innovation!
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Forstall... you're definitely thinking of Scott Forstall.

Craig Federighi is the current lead of software design at Apple.

He is...? 🙄

 

[agarciatv]

Considering banks and airlines are still using Windows 3.1, should we really be that concerned?