Let's be honest, nobody was using it anyway

Following the discovery of two security bugs in QuickTime for Windows, today Apple has decided to pull the plug on the application altogether.

Back in November, Trend Micro's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) discovered two high impact vulnerabilities in Apple's multimedia toolkit for Windows.

The issues (ZDI-16-241 and ZDI-16-242) are two heap corruption vulnerabilities that allow attackers to run malicious code on the user's machine, after the user opens a maliciously crafted multimedia file, either in the QuickTime desktop client or via the browser plugin.

After making their discoveries, following normal procedures, Trend Micro researchers informed Apple of the issue on November 11 and then waited for the company to plug the security holes.

The researchers had to wait until January 2016, when Apple updated QuickTime for Windows to version 7.7.9. To their surprise, the vulnerabilities weren't patched, and Trend Micro made inquiries at Apple to find out why this didn't happen.

Now Apple has rage quit on the software altogether and decided to deprecate the Windows version of QuickTime for good. As so, today, together with Trend Micro and US-CERT, the three have put out simultaneous announcements, letting Windows users know that they have to uninstall QuickTime.

Read more: http://news.softpedia.com/news/apple-deprecates-quicktime-for-windows-because-fixing-security-bugs-got-boring-502979.shtml#ixzz45uPdknz8

Given that QT10 is a total POS, even on a MAC, what does that say about ProRes? Apple has made it ptretty clear they're interested in consumer sales not professional sales.