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."

Comments

-1, buy an ad.

[QuantumG]

Oh wait, you did.

Multiple Zip Files

[jdvuyk]

The ability to unzip large groups of ZIP files in one action would be a lovely addition!!! I just use winrar anyway as, although it can be alot more ugly, the methods it uses are much more elegant. My 2c...

Must compete with Microsoft

[Dr. Evil]

Now that Microsoft has incorporated an unzip utilitiy in the OS, WinZip can't profit from people who just want to unzip files.

Who needs it

[jb.hl.com]

I have 7-zip...it handles almost all archives I come across quickly and well, and to boot it just works. Why the hell would I want to go back to WinZip, which from the sounds of it is even more bloated than it was before?

And we care because... ?

[SirGarlon]

Why does the Slashdot community, one of the largest Free / Open Source communities on the Net, care when a new proprietary version of some Windows-only software comes out? Find another place to post this nonsense.

Re:And we care because... ?

[thelost]

there's nothing sad about using windows, slashdot is not a linux advocacy site, though many of it's users seems to think so. Slashdot is a news site for technology orientated geeks, windows is a piece of technology and so very much worthy of coverage on slashdot. The parent article though is not news, it's a piece of press pr for a product, dressed up as information on a yesterday piece of tech that no-one really cares about anymore.

Re:And we care because... ?

[Jugalator]

Fuck Micro$oft Windoze and fuck revisionists who say this isn't a Linux site!

You're the revisionist if you want to make it a Linux site.
The special Linux section of Slashdot is right here.

Re:what the hell

[RobotRunAmok]

Is slashdot being paid by the winzip authors to post this story ?

Yes.

how about posting a story about an opensource/free compression package ?????

Because no money changed hands.

At the top of my screen there's a bar with links to "freshmeat, sourceforge, thinkgeek,

Because money has changed hands. See how easy that was?

Does Malda and his crew care about that stuff anymore

More people visiting this site use Windows than Linux (I'm not one of them, but facts are facts). Any journalist/entertainer whose pitches fly counter to what the majority of his audience is interested in catching will fail. Linux adds to the slashdot "geek cachet" -- that's what's being marketed here, not genuine Linux news, for which there are hundreds of supeior sources.

or is this just a sleazy and easy money making operation for them ?

Sleazy? From a guy calling himself "Adult Film Producer?" Get a grip, chum. As for "easy," well, they've got to put up with idiots like you and me pissing in their pool 24/7. I doubt anyone could pay me enough to wade through the whining here on a daily basis. Hardly "easy."

7-Zip

[BinLadenMyHero]

Have you tried 7-Zip?

Re:what?

[tomstdenis]

And defending the status-quo as proper is better?

I'm not against free-market economies quite the opposite I'm for them. Specifically because I AM for them I despise companies like this that blue button theorem something and then demand to get paid for it.

There SHOULDN'T be a market for this application and solely because the powers that be want to make it so doesn't mean it's right.

I mean there was a time when people knew how to use their computers. But now that everything is shiny and impressive corporations don't tend to make products that require customers to think.

So they do the thinking for them. Except their thinking is how to make profit, not a good product.

If corporations had customer best interests in mind we would never had seen half the shit that is in Windows [and tools that run in it]. We wouldn't have had WEP or WPA. We wouldn't have 900 page ever-growing drafts for WiMAX, etc, etc, etc.

There are a lot of "trivial" applications that are getting throw around as the be all. and only through corporate dominance [e.g. MS Office] does it succeed.

A lot of people say "but can it open .doc files?" as a complaint against OO.o. Or they say "but this device doesn't work in linux", etc. There was a time when application/device developers would strive for compatibility.

Does linux support your SCSI card? Wrong question. Does your SCSI card support Linux!!! Does your SCSI card follow standards? Is it properly document? etc...

But people are so void of visible options that they assume that's the way it is, has been and always will. I agree that whatever Dell sells is what people "think exists".

And it's specifically because companies like Dell, Intel and Microsoft collude that a free-market DOES NOT EXIST.

Sorry to rant but if you think you live in a free market society you're totally fucking clueless. Your entire life has been mapped and fits within corporate profiles of maximum profitability.

McDonalds doesn't make a lot of money because they sell things people need. Same applies to the oil companies, microsoft and in this case WinZIP.

Tom