Windows 7 to kill off QuickTime on PCs?

soumya · 27-02-2009, 10:31 PM

Windows Media Player adds native support for .mov files

Microsoft has some good news for movie fans. If you want to watch .mov files in Windows 7, you don't need to install Apple's QuickTime. Bye, bye annoying system tray icon! Adios, Apple update!

The support for .mov files was mentioned deep in a long list of changes that are coming to the Windows 7 Release Candidate.

On the Engineering Windows 7 blog, in a post entitled 'Some changes since beta for the RC', Chaitanya Sareena, Senior Program Manager on the Core User Experience team, talks up improved playback support for video content from digital camcorders and cameras:

"We've since added support for Windows Media Player to natively support the .mov files used to capture video for many common digital cameras," writes Sareena.

While this may delight owners of cameras which output in the .mov format, it's also good news for anyone who enjoys watching movies on their PC, as movie trailers, particularly those on Apple Movie Trailers, come in .mov format, and so require QuickTime (or a freeware player such as VLC) to view.

Windows users who install QuickTime are then nagged with pop-ups from the Apple update software prompting them to install other Apple software such as iTunes and Safari.

And while this move brings wider camera support, and rids Windows users of those annoying nag screens, it also has the added benefit for Microsoft of making one Apple application less necessary to download.

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gxsaurav · 28-02-2009, 12:53 AM

Quicktime is dead on Windows anyway. the only good thing was Quicktime's Multimedia engine which Microsoft has equaled if not superseded with DirectShow 10. I don't even have quicktime installed on my Vista machine since a year as K-Lite codec pack does all for me

mavihs · 28-02-2009, 02:46 AM

good move!!!!

Faun · 28-02-2009, 03:01 AM

Quicktime suckz...good move from MS !

IronManForever · 28-02-2009, 05:06 AM

Quicktime was the only player I found which played videos recorded from my phone well. I wouldn;t trust codec packs like K-lite, etc.

**MetalheadGautham** · 28-02-2009, 08:49 AM

Who needs quicktime anyway ?
(the player not the format).

eggman · 28-02-2009, 09:13 AM

how can you kill something dead??

krazzy · 28-02-2009, 09:40 AM

But if you have an iPod and you install iTunes then QuickTime will automatically be installed anyway.

gary4gar · 28-02-2009, 10:06 AM

Supporting Popular formats out-of-box is the a Welcome Move!

comp@ddict · 28-02-2009, 12:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eggman

how can you kill something dead??

LOLz

Kl@w-24 · 28-02-2009, 12:46 PM

Cue: Another lawsuit.

Liverpool_fan · 28-02-2009, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Supporting Popular formats out-of-box is the a Welcome Move!

+1

Also is there any other codecs MS is planning to support codecs out-of-box? FLAC? Vorbis? Theora?

WTF BC · 28-02-2009, 01:34 PM

Ah we need alternative for itunes also.

kumarmohit · 28-02-2009, 02:04 PM

Anti trust Lawsuit from 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, California
Target locked: 1, Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington
Launching in 3..., 2..., 1... Now

freshseasons · 28-02-2009, 03:21 PM

No one likes quicktime i know for sure. But the abd thing is if you are an iphone or a ipod (There are other alternatives to an ipod though)you need itunes for sure and installing one without quicktime is real trick.
Now if somehow windows 7 completely does away with itunes and adds native support for mobiles like iphone i am ALL GAME FOR windows 7.