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Windows 7 for XP ProfessionalsUpdating Support Skills from XP to Windows 7by Bink.nu's Raymond Comvalius
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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
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Great! No more Apple bloatware and buggy software! Nobody needs 88MB of crap [that's how much room QT takes on my system] just to play a MOV file.
this is interesting, I noticed in a leaked beta of WMP 9 or 10 (when bink.nu did such things), it had .mov support. They must have agreed with apple not to release the support at the time or just decided it wasn't a good move.