Review by S. J. K. Haley

Win Zip is a brand that has been around a long time in computing and there was a time when I thought it was a handy ultility and easy to use, and I appreciated that you could download an evaluation version and then pay for it. For the most part, I still feel that way.

But then came Windows XP and its handy little (and FREE) integrated unzipping feature and WinZip got pushed to the back burner.

So when given the opportunity to use this full blown version I was geeked to see what it could do.

This version of WinZip is friendly like the old version and easy to use. The interfaces have been cleaned up and appreciate that the developers have done what they could to improve what was a pretty seemless product.

The box also offered WinZip Courier 3.0, an sidecar program that creates smaller compressed files for email and file sharing.

What the program can’t overcome are file size limits set by email service providers. So for sending very large files (in my case, image files that I had to get to my publisher) I still needed to go through an online FTP service (YouSendIt), but there was for extremely large images for print.

My overall imporession is that this makes a great product for people who need it. But for general computer user (those who use a computer for leasuretuime activities), I would stick to services that come preloaded with Windows 7.