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WinZip purchased by Vector Capital
C|Net
is reporting that WinZip Computing has been purchased by Vector
Capital, a turnaround specialist that previously bought Corel Corp.,
took the company private, and restored it to profitability.WinZip has never charged for upgrades or new versions, a common practice in the software world. And it has not added extra features for customers that paid the $29 licensing fee. Vector plans to "change that by reminding users a little more firmly that the software costs money, as well as likely coming out with features that only paying customers can download," the report says. Vector has also signed a marketing and distribution agreement with Google. Of course, there are plenty of free compression tools out there, so we can't help but wonder how successful Vector will be at squeezing some fossil fuel out of this dinosaur.
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Subscribe to commentsBrian PipaJul 18th 2005 12:58PM
I switched to using only free zip utilities a few years back and have never looked back. Right now my favorite is Izarc http://www.izarc.org
I was used to the WinZip look and Izarc can be made to look just like it.
But...as was said in the post, there are MANY other free zip utilities. No need to pay for one.
brian
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Marc OrchantJul 18th 2005 1:59PM
Brian - thanks for the tip on Izarc - it looks like a nice app. Since ZIP compatibility is now built into both the Windows XP and Mac OS X shell, the need for any standalone zip program has been dramatically reduced for a lot of people, especially those who generally only need to extract files.
I found this article interesting since it promises development of new features only available to registered users. I'm wondering what they have in mind.
For example, WinZip released an Outlook add-in not too long ago that they charge $19.95 for. From what I can see there's not much this add-in does that you can't do from any Open / Save / File dialog anyway if you have WinZip installed by right-clicking. It's just a bit more convenient and visible. They seem to be selling quite a few copies though.
donelyJul 19th 2005 4:54AM
Izarc i pretty good, but I think TUGZip (also freeware, with the author working on releasing v4.0 as open source). Get it at www.tugzip.com. It even includes a self-extractor.
While Windows DOES include basic ZIP functionality, for all the people that downloads WinZip, using TUGZip (or Izarc or 7-zip or..or. many of the other free options) is an easy transition. I prefer TUGZip over the others due to its superior (IMHO) designed interface - easily the best of the free options. It also supports almost all compression formats you can through at it (even ISO and other CD-image files)
It's even translated to 10+ languages and the author is very very reponsive with bug and feature requests.