Apple Ships QuickTime for Windows To Provide Cross-Platform Multimedia
Standard

CUPERTINO, California--November 10, 1992--Apple Computer, Inc., today
announced plans to bring the world's most sophisticated multimedia
technology to people who use Microsoft Windows. QuickTime for Windows, a
set of Windows Dynamic Linked Libraries (DLLs), can be installed on any PC
and used by any Windows application adapted to QuickTime's application
programming interface. Several Windows software and hardware vendors today
also announced support for QuickTime for Windows, version 1.0.

With QuickTime for Windows, Apple has developed a cross-platform multimedia
standard to provide users with a consistent interface and file format for
working with digital video, sound, animation, and other multimedia data.
Using QuickTime, authors and publishers will have a simple way to
distribute their work in a single file format. QuickTime for Windows will
also give multimedia programmers and developers one cross-platform
multimedia programming interface.

"QuickTime for Windows clearly demonstrates Apple's commitment to setting
the standard for performance and ease of use in multimedia," said John
Sculley, Apple's chairman and CEO. "The QuickTime architecture has emerged
as the industry's most widely adopted multimedia technology on Macintosh
personal computers, and we look forward to making this same award-winning
technology available to Windows users."

More than 500 QuickTime applications have been announced since QuickTime
was introduced in January 1992, with 300 QuickTime products currently
shipping. QuickTime has received worldwide recognition and awards for
technical excellence and innovation reinforcing Macintosh as the personal
computer of choice for multimedia.

QuickTime for Windows 

QuickTime for Windows is an implementation of the QuickTime architecture on
Microsoft's Windows environment. QuickTime for Windows provides Windows
users with the portions of QuickTime needed to playback and control
QuickTime Movie files and compressed still images. With the availability
of QuickTime for Windows multimedia authors, developers, publishers, and
users can work with QuickTime Movies on Macintosh, Silicon Graphics, and
PCs running Windows. Through QuickTime, users on Macintosh and Windows PCs
will be able to easily exchange files, rely on a consistent human
interface, and use a variety of modular compression technologies for
storing multimedia information.

Apple and Intel Work Together to Drive Standards 

Apple and Intel today also announced that they are jointly integrating
Intel's Indeo video compression technology into QuickTime on Macintosh and
Windows. This development provides users with Intel's technology for
compression and decompression of QuickTime video data. Intel's support for
QuickTime, with the Indeo line of software and hardware products, will
offer QuickTime users with accelerated playback capabilities.

"Intel's Indeo video technology represents a key ingredient to standardize
video computing on all major computing platforms," said Andrew S. Grove,
president and CEO of Intel Corp. "With Indeo technology integrated into
Apple's QuickTime for Windows, the ability to play videos on PCs is easy
to install, and available to the tens of millions of Intel
microprocessor-based computer users."

Third-party Developers Rally to Support QuickTime for Windows

Several software vendors also announced that they will support QuickTime
for Windows in their products. Among those announcing are industry leaders
Adobe Systems; Corel Systems; Claris Corp.; Lotus Development Corp.;
MacroMedia; and WordPerfect Corp. Additionally, several PC hardware and
peripherals vendors have announced support for QuickTime for Windows in
their products. The list includes Creative Labs; Dolch Computer; and Media
Vision. (See attached list of companies planning to support QuickTime for
Windows for contact names and phone numbers).

Pricing and Availability 

Apple will offer version 1.0 of QuickTime for Windows in a Software
Development Kit (SDK) designed for professional programmers, and sold
through the APDA, Apple's developer tools distribution group. The SDK is
priced at $295 and will be available worldwide Nov. 23,1992. The SDK
Bundle for Windows and Macintosh, also available worldwide on Nov. 23,
1992, is priced at $495.

System Requirements 

The QuickTime for Windows software requires a 386 or faster CPU, equipped
with 4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard disk, and a VGA or better graphics adapter.
Movies with sound require installation of a PC sound card. System software
requirements include MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1 or higher.

For Additional Information 

To receive a QuickTime Starter Kit for Macintosh, call 1-800-538-9696,
extension 175, to contact an Apple software reseller.

For more information about QuickTime for Windows, Macintosh, or the Movie
Exchange Toolkit, call APDA--Apple' s mail order service for
developers--at 1-800-282-2732 in the United States, or 1-800-637-0029 in
Canada. From other international locations call 716-871-6555 or contact
the country APDA representative. APDA may be contacted electronically
through the following addresses:

AppleLink: APDA 
America Online: APDA 
CompuServe: 76666,2405 
Internet: APDA@applelink.apple.com 

APDA 
Apple Computer, Inc. 
P.O. Box 319 
Buffalo, NY 1407-0319

Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Apple Computer, Inc. develops,
manufactures and markets personal computer systems for use in business,
education, science, engineering and government. A recognized pioneer and
innovator in the personal computer industry, Apple does business in more
than 120 countries. Apple has redefined computing to mean empowerment of
the individual, and has been named first in customer satisfaction among
business computer users in the United States for two years in a row by
J.D. Powers and Associates. It seeks through technology to provide people
with easy and affordable access to information and computing power.

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