Software constantly evolves, and change often sparks controversy. Such is the case with Zip, a popular file-compression technology that almost every computer user has run into at one time or another. One reason why the technology, developed back in 1986, has gained such widespread acceptance is that customers have been able to mix and match different vendors’ Zip products without having to worry about file compatibility. Soon, however, that might change. In adding stronger encryption-security features to their products, Zip suppliers PKWare and WinZip Computing have taken divergent paths.
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The End of .Zip Compression as We Know It
Posted by: Paul Korzeniowski November 8, 2003 02:00 AMSoftware constantly evolves, and change often sparks controversy. Such is the case with Zip, a popular file-compression technology that almost every computer user has run into at one time or another. One reason why the technology, developed back in 1986, has gained such widespread acceptance is that customers have been able to mix and match different vendors’ Zip products without having to worry about file compatibility. Soon, however, that might change. In adding stronger encryption-security features to their products, Zip suppliers PKWare and WinZip Computing have taken divergent paths.