Comments on: Proprietary Zip Compression http://www.cyprich.com/2007/04/30/proprietary-zip-compression/ Occasionally Relevant Insights from a Software Builder Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Johan Cyprich http://www.cyprich.com/2007/04/30/proprietary-zip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Johan Cyprich Tue, 01 May 2007 17:39:58 +0000 http://www.cyprich.com/2007/04/30/proprietary-zip-compression/#comment-747 I haven't tried 7-Zip yet but a program like that would save you buying multiple licenses. I'll have to do a review on this application. You still might need to buy just one license of WinZip for customers who compress files with it. The Zip compression in Windows is very unreliable. I found that certain Zip files can't be extracted properly which messed up a few jobs around here before we realized this. I haven’t tried 7-Zip yet but a program like that would save you buying multiple licenses. I’ll have to do a review on this application. You still might need to buy just one license of WinZip for customers who compress files with it.

The Zip compression in Windows is very unreliable. I found that certain Zip files can’t be extracted properly which messed up a few jobs around here before we realized this.

]]> By: Steve.Lippert http://www.cyprich.com/2007/04/30/proprietary-zip-compression/comment-page-1/#comment-744 Steve.Lippert Tue, 01 May 2007 13:06:13 +0000 http://www.cyprich.com/2007/04/30/proprietary-zip-compression/#comment-744 My personal favorite is 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) as it works with almost everything! Buying Winzip for our company could easily cost hundreds of dollars as most of our users require some sort of Compression / Decompression software, and lets face it, the built-in compressed folders utility of Windows XP is slow poorly implemented software at best. My personal favorite is 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) as it works with almost everything! Buying Winzip for our company could easily cost hundreds of dollars as most of our users require some sort of Compression / Decompression software, and lets face it, the built-in compressed folders utility of Windows XP is slow poorly implemented software at best.

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