WinZip Pro 11.2 Build 8094 Portable
Tacio Allaire
Winzip should be freeware not a pay app. In today's computer world winzip was once the best around but no longer is winzip a great app in fact I no longer use it because the makers of winzip are just idiots. They want you to pay for a app that should be free no thank you.
Well, it amazes me how many techies get soooo upset by winzip. Let's be clear; winzip does something that everyone else doesn't! They integrate beautifully into the windows interface. WinZip the software reads everything and writes to zip and zipx. It encrypts on the fly, and with the latest version of Courier, it integrates large file uploads with a click. It integrates with Outlook's ribbon, and with Gmail, Yahoo mail, and Hotmail completeley seamlessly. It adds a link to your email and stores the file on the zipsend server ready for download. Now, I know very well that all of this can be done manually, and if you are very tech savvy, it's easy. For most people in business, this is all a Faff, and the ability to just click once or twice and have it all done automatically is really terrific. With the speed of the internet now, rar and zip files have not got a huge difference. I have used winrar for a long time, and winzip too. But for ease of use, seamless and excellent integration - winzip really do the job well. I know that they may be only after money - so what? Isn't everyone with their software? Of course they are. Of course the free zippers and the paid for winrar do the job, but the interface of winrar is ugly and not completely user-friendly (for non techies) andI believe you get what you pay for, and actually, for business, Winzip and Courier are excellent.
Winzip is a terrible program, all it is a scam. They can't even come out with a freeware version of winzip. Why should we have to pay for this nonsense when there are other programs out there that are even better then this one and they are free to use.. I tried winzip but I was so upset that that I uninstalled it right away. If you like wasting money on garbage then winzip is for you. 7-zip is much better and more powerful to use then winzip.
Too bad adding propietary compression extensions to the compression engine, and calling generated archives also ZIP.
Standard ZIP format does not support PPMD, nor WavPack compression, so it only causes ZIP files that are not able to be extracted by other ZIP tools.
Better call that format .winzip, and stick to the standard deflate and deflate64.
Unfortunately broken promises of lifetime updates and much better products from the competition leave much to be desired for winzip.
There are even free alternatives that are much better.
RIP WinZip.
Used winzip from day one but now find it very lacking in any true relative update and the charge they now expect however small does not warrant an upgrade. 7zip has a far better compression ratio and i also like the features with PowerArchiver.
WinZip should now be dead and buried and the coding team should get their heads together and come up with something else.
My 2 cents worth ;-)
I am inclined to agree with the other reviews. However, let me mention right now that winzip isn't a bad program at all. It's a great compressor and a stable program. Unfortunately, and especially in light of other 'great' programs with similar functions - the mean doesn't justify the end. It's it's one thing I HATE with software companies, it's greed. So, on that note. 5 for the program, 1 for the price - and a reduction even further for blatantly uncaring programmers (who really do completely ignore user requests).
They do not offer the free upgrade for users which means that they are not the company that I would want to use in my business, nor would I favor a partner as such. Rar is the way to go, dont be fooled by the hype, winzip has been around for a while, and the updates are solely to generate revenue for the capalist company.
I suspect it is a company employee who is the one or are the one's who are favoring this app. Beware
I love how people have to troll fileforum and spam reviews with posts that have nothing to do with the program being reviewed. They do not even bother to download the program and try it out, they simply post "winrar rocks, winzip sucks, roflmaobbq". I am sorry, but winrar is NOT the standard format, nor is 7zip. For those of you who claim 80-90% of sites now use the rar format, your wrong. I have seen VERY FEW commercial sites that utilize the rar format for distribution. Zip is still the most widely used. Rar is mainly used to distribute copyrighted material over p2p networks. I know this because I used to be involved with it, and this can further be proven by going to any site that distributes copyrighted material. Please, dont assume that just because the piracy fanatics make rar their format of choice that it is the most utilized format in the rest of the world.
Winzip is a great program, has always been. No, it might not support all the formats out there, but again, most of those are used VERY RARELY (such as ace). Zip is the primary format on the windows platform, while tarball, gzip, and bzip/bzip2 are the primary ones supported on linux. Winzip only needs to support those formats as those are the formats a majority of people use. It would be nice if they supported every format under the sun, but they dont need to. The majority of winzip users only need the major formats, they dont need niche formats like ace, rar, and 7zip. I have yet to see a company that utilizes ANY of those three mentioned formats or has a need to do so. So please, quit trolling winrar and 7zip here, and rate the program at hand. It did lose a point because it didnt support more formats, but again, I understand the reason they choose not to. The new cd wizard is a great feature for those who choose to automate their backups. The new bzip2 max deflate method is outstanding, havent tried the PPM one yet. The interface finally got a much needed updating and overhaul. Anyways, perhaps adding a few more linux distribution formats would make me rate this a 5, but I will give them a 4 for the vast improvements to the program that they have made.
ALSO, Please stop rating low simply because a program is not free. not every program on the market can be free otherwise innovation would be stifled. Developers have to make a living and just because you base your sole decision for using a piece of software on its price doesnt mean everyone does. Most free programs, like 7zip, require you sacrifice a lot in usability in exchange for it being free (this is NOT ALWAYS the case, but is most of the time).
dont know why people complain, If you do not like winzip, don't use/try it and don't complain about what it does not support. Fact is, Zip is the most widely used format. Winzip supports your "basic" zip formats. Rar, and others are not standard. Where as Winzip can do Cab ect.. which are the "basic standard" archives used widely by users and developers alike.
Who cares if it is not "free" another fact. Winzip just nags you when you open, you simply click a button to continue.. Even after 30 days, the functionality of the program does not quit.. It continues to allow you to use it regardless.
You are not forced to pay anything. I prefer Winrar myself, I admit, but I still use Winzip for many things, and unless you really know what you are doing, there are things Winzip can do that Winrar and others cannot :) If you have not figured that out yet, you will never know :) All depends on your needs and what you are packaging, some files as well get a better compression rate using Winzip and certain settings than others such as Winrar or 7zip.
There are many other features about Winzip that are good that most of you have probably never even used, you most likely just zip up a file and say bleh, well, why not check out all it has to offer? Check out everything from automation to the zip and compression features, play around with the settings..
don't just post bad scored because you feel it is not as good as something your using, A program does not need to support everything "under the sun" in order to be good. It provides exactly what the developers wanted to support and that is the basic used all around formats that are used for various packaging, distrobution and installer methods. Not sure if you noticed but most arhives you download from many places are .zip Only smaller sites and personal site users use anything else, take places such as Fileplanet for example, huge gaming community providing all sorts of gaming software, news ect.. What do they use? Exactly.. They did not need anything else under the sun to simply place a set of files in a zip.
How exactly is it ugly? It is a clean layout, simple to use easy to understand. Winrar looks almost identical, cept the skin being different. So again, what makes it any uglier than the others?
Now compare:
Tell me exactly how Winzip is ugly? In fact the icons even look better than Winrar..
I am a hardcore Winrar users, I use it for everything pretty much, 99% of what I do ends up in a rar file, but most of you peeps are so impartial it is pathetic.
The Beta 10 has been out how long?? And already a few crap posts about it, did you bother testing it, or just feel like getting your word in about your feeling on the program?
Pathetic..
One thing WinZip does do better than all other compression software--just has better compatability, and opens some .cab files that winrar and winace don't, as well as those rare but annoying .hqx files and .??_ files. I still wish it could at least open .ace and .rar files as this would allow it to be my only compression program. Oh well--I'll just continue use winzip as my primary and winace for .ace and .rar for now...
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