Now in beta testing, the latest version of WinZip 11

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Now in beta testing, the latest version of WinZip 11

October 20, 2006 in Software | Permalink

Grab140 WinZip has to be one of the oldest archive management tools. It was one of the apps that pioneered the ZIP compression routine as the default compression of choice for Windows and, more recently, the Mac platform (Mac OS recently moved from using .sit to .zip archives as the OS default). At one stage, the software was provided free of charge, so just about every Windows user selected the software as their favourite compression manager. It's now available as commercial trial and as a Standard and Professional edition.

Here we are in 2006 and a beta version of WinZip 11 has been released. It looks the same as the current WinZip 10, although it has a few new features such as selecting the compression routine based on the files you want to archive.

There are tons of rival products, many of them completely free. ZipGenius is one, 7-ZIP is another. There's also Stuffit and WinRAR. Download WinZip 11 beta and see the new features for yourself.