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Posted in PKWare punts free secure archiving tools to consumers
Posted Wednesday 25th April 2007 18:38 GMT
Milo Tsukroff

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

... 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.]

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