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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."
can still kick it's ass
... is this really necessary for an archiver?
What about the annoying rar format? Hope it can de/compress that.
However, with broadband increasing in prevelance, and pendrives and CD writers becoming pretty much the norm now for home users (my parents, never the most technologically literate of users, have their own USB pendrives which they love), not to mention zip integration into just about every common OS now, is there still a place for WinZip? Even if people continue to download it, most people I know who've used it just bypass the nag screens without a second thought - how long can they survive?
And tomorrow the stock exchange will be the human race
What is this now, Pressreleasedot? I'm running WinZip 8.0 and will never upgrade it for the same reason I'll never upgrade from AIM 4.3, Acrobat 5, and Office 2000: the problem is solved and the old version does everything it should without any new useless cruft (why is Acrobat 7 ~25 megs to read PDF files? And why does it access the Internet at all?).
Did all the "old school" Slashdot editors leave or something? These new guys they have are pretty lame.
rooooar
tar + bzip2 + mkisofs + cdrecord.
.imp, it also handles zips fine] and doesn't require me to shell out money.
Wow... now I don't need "professional" tools.
Seriously, windows users come to expect nothing any more I guess. There are alternatives to "the 10th edition of twenty year old compression algorithms".
I'm sorry but honestly what the fuck is the real market for Winzip?
Even when I was a windows user I used Winimp as it is free, compresses better [when making
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
The stats still show that the vast majority of people who visit Slashdot are running Windows. But yeah, it is an ad.
How we know is more important than what we know.
... it supports a new "deflate64" compression that is NOT supported by zlib. As a result, clamd chokes on some ZIP files and can't scan them.
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This pain-in-the-@ss aspect of the new Winzip is the most likely thing to affect
I find it humorous that when Winzip hits 10.0 and starts offering free versions, /.ers start foaming at the mouth to say what a steaming heap of shit it is and OMG can you believe people BUY that when I love to use [other application] that has [other feature] and it's FREE? And then the obligatory, "slashdot sucks now, look at the ad they're running and calling it an article."
And just last week it was all lollipops and blowjobs for Opera when they turned 10 and released a free version.
This new release includes "themes", which greatly de-uglifies it. Also, it reads/writes iso's, which is cool. I don't know if winzip does that or not. Winrar has a pretty powerful CLI too, which I use to back up certain directories on my Windows machine through a scheduled task. Winzip I believe has command-line options too.
Anyway, the new WinRAR is so nice I bought a copy.
Yes, bought, as in spent money! You can do that, you know.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
There's even a Windoze GUI (http://www.info-zip.org/WiZ.html) - if you really want one, though I didn't like it much when I last looked at it.
All it's lacked for ages now has been diskette spanning - though, as someone else points out elsewhere in this thread, in these days of USB flash drives and CDRWs there's much less need for that.
So Big Thanks, a Tip o' The Hat and a beverage of your choice to the Info-Zip folks.
From what I've read, though, you may be in luck. To increase revenue the new owners of the WinZip product will be stricter about trial periods. I'm quite sure they don't have a multimillion dollar budget either. They have momentum; they have users. Search google for "use winzip" and see how many pages read, "to open the file, use winzip or other program..."
To start, why not put your URL with your name or in a sig? If you overlook such simple things how good can your software be?
this isn't an ad for winzip... it is news that this fairly ubiquitous program that we've all used at some point will now be available in a free version without nags. it's not like this article was completely without any merit.
Yes I have and It's what I hand out to everyone. but 7zip really needs to make the user interface a bit more braindead. it's got some klunky parts that they need to fix up a bit.
I have saved many a copy of winzip from being keygened by a colleague by handing out discs with lots of freeware and OSS tools.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Winzip 10 is still unreliable since it still doesn't support Unicode filenames
I can remember having contacted them a year back and they said this was not a priority. Windows is now Unicode compliant, even if some programs still need to work on this (Firefox for example), but this is so stone age thinking of them.
I use the zip compressor on MacOS X and it creates the entries in Unicode. WinZip can't deal with these files. I have files, whoes filenames are in multiple languages, including Chinese and Russian, so these have be compressed without WinZip.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
I can't see anywhere that it says this will be free?
In fact, the only "free" on the page is in this sentence:
"Caution, WinZip 10.0 is not a free upgrade."
Have I missed something burried in one of the links? I looked and I see nothing that says it'll be free.