Quicktime -- >Vista

[Sivakatirswami]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> Ian Wood wrote:
> 
>> QT-specifics - on the various panoramic mailing lists that I belong to 
>> there have only been reports of QT failing to show some content on 
>> Vista 64-bit. Even then it seems to be mostly QTVR files that are 
>> affected rather than video/audio. There have been no reports on those 
>> lists of problems with Vista 32-bit, and the lists together are about 
>> as busy as this one is...
>> 
>> So no personal experience, but plenty of second-hand info.
> 
> Excellent, thanks much for the info. I don't have Vista yet either, so 
> everything you've said helps. To be honest, I don't even want Vista -- 
> but I know eventually I am going to have to bite the bullet.
> 

"Woefully uniformed..." asks: what is the difference between Vista
64-bit and
Vista-32 bit and how would you frame a query to a Windows Vista user to
check on which version (64 bit or 32 bit) she has?

and, will a Rev "get info" system gestalt tell us this info?
Some of our users are pretty relaxed (trust us) about running
a full system sniffer and sending results back to the mother ship.

So, if Rev  Apps can extract this info we can do an intelligent
dialog "Sorry you are using 64 bit Vista"  etc.

My goodness!..one has to wonder, like some else did the other day.
whether it's worth it to even try to support Windows any more.

Our product it free...sounds almost insane, but, one
might put a disclaimer "Sorry if you use Windows
you will not be able to access...."  and cut your losses
(time, overhead, mental re-estate etc. for Windows support)
It is no worse than "This site only works on Internet Explorer..."

But Mac OSX is also not the future....

<rambling>

OT: What is the state of Quicktime for Linux?
We need to be ready for China,
and those who will follow (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia)
India is still in Microsoft's pocket, but even that could change.
I don't know where Japan stands....but they might also follow China

Our senior editor will be visiting Shanghai in April
working on some translation projects....
so this is very close to home.

If China goes Linux, it will certainly change the global OS equation.
Rev could be at the cutting edge on this one...and media delivery
on Linux will be a key issue. (Whether from inside Revolution players
or on web pages....)

We already have associates -- young, but brilliant, Indian Americans
in key IT positions, -- in the US telling me "I use Ubunto at home.
When will Revolution work on that OS?"

These 25-38 year olds who eat Javascript and AJAX for breakfast,
  live and die inside  a web brower,  who can
rattle off the reasons why some Javascript  calls work in Firefox but
not in IE are "fed up with proprietary" and their move to
open source is a silent tsunami in progress.

</rambling>

Sivakatirswami
www.himalayanacademy.com