On Friday, September 6, 2002, at 02:12 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:

> My client is stuck on Windows Media (or MPEGs) because he doesn't want 
> his
> primarily PC-based audience to have to install QT.

Also, according to 
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2002/may/06quicktime.html that argument 
isn't valid. 100 million QT 5 DLs -- the majority probably *not* to Mac 
users. The odds of a given PC having at least QT5 on it are pretty damn 
good.

I always find the vapid client objections to QT install on Win to be 
rather foolish, in light of the fact these same clients are quite happy 
to DL and install 20+ Mb patches regularly to fix the latest security 
holes and system bugs. By comparison a single 10-Mb install from a CD 
(that quite possibly won't even be necessary anyway) is fiddling small 
change.

The "install QT problem" is a myth.


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