As part of CEO Gilbert Amelio’s plan to embrace rather than oppose Windows NT, Apple Computer Inc will begin delivering beta versions of QuickTime multimedia APIs for the Microsoft Corp operating system from late fall. QuickTime’s been available for Windows since 1992, and the port to Windows 95 and NT is being jointly engineered by Apple, Macromedia, Data Translation’s Media 100 group, and TrueVision. Developers will be able to write QuickTime content on one platform and deploy it on all supported environments, currently Mac and Windows, though the API set will feature on Unix and OS/2 as well. Meantime, Apple’s tentatively decided to take space at next year’s Windows NT Intranet Solutions Show and by next year’s show it might have a CHRP-compliant NT PowerBook to show off. It might also have the Motorola-built E Series PowerPC NT servers Apple Australia’s already marketing (CI No 2,942) or possibly NT versions of the two-way servers it brought out in February with AIX on board.
