New Winzip in the Works

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday September 1, 2005 @12:06AM from the unzip-it dept.

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."

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all the linux zealots are out in full force today by circletimessquare · 2005-09-01 00:32 · Score: 0, Troll

it's an important tool

this "press release" is useful information if you work with windows

most people have to use windows boxen at work

so deal with it linux trolls

furthermore, if anyone is ever going to adopt linux, it will be in spite of folks like you, not because of the type of holier-than-thou attitudes some of you display in this thread

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Compression by RamboIII · 2005-09-01 00:41 · Score: 0, Troll

Almost all the other features we're used to now come completely free in the Standard edition."
It looks like they compressed the wrong words.

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