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New Winzip in the Works
flufster writes "Today WinZip released a public beta version of WinZip 10.0, the latest version of the popular archiving software. The biggest change in this version is that the software has finally been broken into two versions - Standard and Professional, offering paying users additional functionality in the Professional version, while allowing others to use the Standard edition without an annoying nag screen.
Version 10.0 has a revamped interface designed to mimic XP's Windows Explorer, and claims to zip archives faster. The software now supports the PPMd and bzip2 compression formats, and can burn from zip archives directly to writable optical media such as CDs and DVDs. The main addition to the Pro edition is an automation feature called 'WinZip Job Wizard' which allows scheduled archiving instructions to be set. Almost all the other features we're used to now come completely free in the Standard edition."
Thr's a lt 2 b sd 4 dta cmprsn.
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Great, an AD pretending to be an article. Not only that, it's for a Windows product on a Linux-based website!
feh. stuff.
On that note, I think it's about time that I update to my WinRAR to 3.50.
And, oh, why hasnt slashdot posted news about WinRAR 3.50? They didnt pay enough?
wait, winzip isnt free?
What's a pirate's favorite compression format?
Raaaaaarrr
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The sentence is fine.
Why is anything anything?
We're is a contraction of 'we are', and is perfectly correct. There's nothing worse than trying to be a grammar Nazi and getting it wrong :)
"Of course, because I do not have a multimillion dollar marketing budget, there is nothing I can do to get the word out about it."
You could have at least put a link to it in your comment, that dosn't cost a million dollars.
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Can't you, you know, make a folder?
It's not slashdotted per se, it's just compressed with technology you haven't heard about before, so you don't get access to the information.
Either that, or if no-one pleads guilty I guess we can infer that the perpetrator is that anonymous coward guy.
Double the pun in one post! This calls for a -ZipIt!, Lousy compression-based humour mod :)
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Of course, because I do not have a multimillion dollar marketing budget, there is nothing I can do to get the word out about it.
I often find that just a simple link to the product's web site helps.
Actually, the price depends on who unzips.
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