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WARNING !

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 24th April 2007 22:12 GMT

This tool is ONLY for the Microsoft Windows faithfull ones !

This is NOT specified in the article !

WARNING !

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 24th April 2007 22:36 GMT

This tool is ONLY for the Microsoft Windows faithfull ones !

This is NOT specified in the article !

Archive is nice, but...

By yeah, right. Posted Tuesday 24th April 2007 23:33 GMT

Does it include a means of detecting legally embarrassing material and an option to accidentally delete it should the need arise?

I mean, if it's good enough for Microsoft, SCO, and other companies large and small, surely an option like that is good for me?

Give it away before they figure out they don't need it...

By Milo Tsukroff Posted Wednesday 25th April 2007 18:32 GMT

... because "classic" zip archiving and security encryption have been available in Windows since XP came out.

Smart move by PKWare, since those people who pick up their free product wouldn't ever pay for it anyway. This way, the PWWare name gains some recognition.

[Full disclosure: After years of using WinZip 10 for free, I recently upgraded one of my PC's to WinZip 11 and actually paid for it. It provides non-Windows-supported compression and encryption.]