The video can be viewed with Apple QuickTime.

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Apple's Quicktime player alone, he says, was patched 34 times.

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It was a PR coup: In April of last year Apple Computer announced that its QuickTime software would handle the internet promotion of the movie adaptation of J.

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As of last year, 45% of adults used Microsoft 's Windows Media Player for downloading video, while 10% used RealNetworks ' Real Player and 6% used Apple 's iTunes or Quicktime, according to Forrester Research.

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Apple has been relegated to showing one old teaser on its QuickTime website.

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Of course, there are significant provisos to get through first -- it's only one machine, running on Apple's drivers, testing mostly Apple applications, and the two systems default to different versions of QuickTime -- but we can still glean some indication of where the two heavyweights are relative to one another.

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Close behind is Microsoft's Media Player, with 38%, then QuickTime, with a distant 14% share. (Apple disagrees that its share is so low.) That, despite such gimmicks as a Disney promotion on boxes of Frosted Cheerios cereal giving away QuickTime software.

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As of last year, 45% of adults used Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows Media Player for downloading video, while 10% used RealNetworks ' (nasdaq: RNWK - news - people ) Real Player and 6% used Apple 's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iTunes or Quicktime, according to Forrester Research.

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