End Of An Era

General Topics
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Nearly every computer user knows the name WinZip.
What may or may not have come to your attention was that the company
(for company it was) was recently acquired by Corel Corporation.

What? WinZip has been shareware for around ten years and upgrades have always been free.
I did some snooping through the online site and immediately saw notice of the fact that it was now COREL WinZip.
Hmm. Further looking through the FAQs showed me that the software just wasn’t ever gonna accept my registration info,
because I hadn’t paid the upgrade FEE. Huh? A quick e-mail to support revealed that upgrades are no longer free,
since WinZip is just another commercial package to Corel Corp.

What a sad end to a great software package.
It’s with a heavy heart that I will now turn to one of the other archive handlers and wave goodbye to an old friend who is friendly no more.

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2

Sad… :cry:
Anyway, there is alternatives (free): 7-zip and IZarc 8)

3

I use winRAR. I like it better then winZIP. The files are more compressed. And I never had a problem with it. :slight_smile:

4

Well, using a file manager like Total Commander (or FAR, if anybody likes it better), I personally never understood why anybody might need/want WinZip…
Of course, just my opinion, possibly twisted by rather specific needs.

5

I have also been using Total Commander(formerly Windows Commander) for years now and would recommend it to everyone.

6

I use Stuffit Deluxe (both on Mac and windows) it can handle almost any format

7

Oh yeah, StuffIt… the great proprietary format that even Apple itself doesn’t have :slight_smile:

8

lol :slight_smile: I do hope avast for mac supports stuffit many mac binaries are still compressed useing it

9

I’m afraid that’s very unlikely. The format is closed, expensive… and even if you buy the license, I don’t think you’ll receive the source codes, only some kind of libraries.

10

thanks for the insight igor