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| Original author | WinZip International LLC |
| Developers | Alludo, formerly Corel Corporation |
| Initial release | April 3, 1991; 34 years ago (1991-04-03) |
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| Operating system | Microsoft Windows,macOS,iOS andAndroid |
| Size | 57.13MB |
| Available in | 12 languages |
List of languages English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Czech | |
| Type | File archiver |
| License | Trialware |
| Website | www |
WinZip is atrialwarefile archiver andcompressor forMicrosoft Windows,macOS,iOS andAndroid. It is developed by WinZip Computing (formerly Nico Mak Computing), which is owned byAlludo. The program can create archives inZip file format, unpack some other archive file formats and it also has various tools for system integration.
WinZip 1.0 was released in April 1991 as agraphical user interface (GUI) front-end forPKZIP.[5] The ZIP file archive format (ZIP) was originally invented forMS-DOS in 1989 byPhil Katz.[6]
WinZip 5.0 implemented built-in PKZIP routines and code fromInfo-Zip and so no longer needed the PKZIP executable.[7]
From version 6.0 until version 9.0, registered users could download the newest versions of the software, enter their original registration information or install over the top of their existing registered version, and thereby obtain a free upgrade. This upgrade scheme was discontinued as of version 10.0.[8]
On May 2, 2006, WinZip Computing was acquired byCorel Corporation using the proceeds from itsinitial public offering.[9][10]
In 2010, WinZip went multi-platform with the release of WinZip 1.0 for Mac OS X (November 16, 2010). This initial release was compatible withIntel Macs and could be run on v10.5 'Leopard.'[11] The iOS version of WinZip was first released on February 17, 2012,[12][9] WinZip Android was first released on June 19, 2012.[13]
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