“If you’re still using Apple’s QuickTime on a Windows PC, it’s time to stop,” Nathan Olivarez-Giles reports for The Wall Street Journal “Apple confirmed to The Wall Street Journal that it is no longer supporting or updating the 11-year-old QuickTime 7 for Windows, and has posted instructions for uninstalling the software. Keeping it installed on your computer may pose a risk.”
“”Deprecating’ was the exact word that Apple used for what’s going on with QuickTime,’ said Christopher Budd, a Trend Micro spokesman, citing a term developers use to describe software that’s still hanging around, but should not be used,” Olivarez-Giles reports. “‘They told us that they were not going to fix it,’ he said.”
“Apple began winding down support for QuickTime 7 on Windows in 2013, when it stopped offering tools to third-party developers. Its last update to QuickTime 7 for Windows came in August. And in January, Apple killed QuickTime browser plug-ins on Windows PCs, so browsers could no longer use QuickTime to play Web video and audio,” Olivarez-Giles reports. “If you’re one of those still running QuickTime 7 on a Windows PC, Apple has an alternative in iTunes, which can play back all the same video and audio files QuickTime does.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Sayonara, QuickTime for Windows.
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