I work with my colleagues on the same project on Windows 7 64 bit version, Visual Studio 2008.
They load JPG and they work. Through QPixmap and Stylesheets. And wor
Your executable is missing the jpg plugin. Optional means, that if your executable doesn't find the plugins (dlls) it will start, but without loading these image formats. It is the same with a lot of qt features (fe: slqdrivers)
You will find the folder "imageformats" in C:\Qt\4.8.4\plugins (replace your installation dir and version), copy it to your executable path and it will show jpgs.
Probably, some environmental variables of your colleagues differ a bit from yours.
Take care with Qt plugins and the distribution of your application.