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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."
Who gives a shit about innovation when it comes to archiving freakin' files? I suppose that someone somewhere gives a damn about it, but as far as I'm concerned, just put a bunch of files into one file, compress it along the way, and I'm happy. Saving a meg here or there doesn't mean anything anymore. I'd imagine there's a wide open field of research for file compression algorithms or whatever, but being a file compression research engineer would be one lame-ass career!
And fortunately today, we have another alternative that hasn't taken this practice up (yet)
I agree: digg contains more valuable articles, but less quality comments: almost no hilarious trolls, no Mac-bashing, no credible Microsoft^WMicro$oft-bashing.
Spoils the fun.
The frogurt is also cursed.
But it comes with your choice of toppings!
The toppings contain sodium benzoate.
Really...I don't understand why this is important enough to rate a slashdot article. I've noticed that lots of important news doesn't make the cut here, or comes in late, while trivia such as this pops in without reason.