For the first time we held a Compression Utilities Member Poll. In 2008, the top program was
WinRARThe poll can be found here »
[POLL] Compresssion Utilities - 2008 Member Choice PollWinRar, a Shareware program which can be used beyond the trial period, won first place with 193 votes (38.9%). WinRar supports and is not limited to the following formats: ZIP, TAR, GZ, BZ/BZ2, 7z, RAR, LHA, ACE, ARJ, CAB, and ISO images.
7-zip came in second with 82 votes (16.5%).
WinZip placed third.
There were 496 votes from 392 participants so there’s a decent group of people who still use a combination of 2 or more compression utilities. The general consensus is that a compression utility is needed nowadays with the increasing size on files. Only two people said they did not use compression utilities.
Some others we reviewed:
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Alpha Zip•
ALZip•
Beezer•
BitZipper•BOMArchiveHelper [built into Mac OS X]
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Built-in Windows Compression utility [Part of Windows 98 Plus!/ME/XP/2003/Vista],
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Disk ARchiver•
Filzip•
Info-Zip•
IZArc•
jZip•
KGB Archiver•
PeaZip•
PKZIP•
PowerArchiver•
Squeez •
StuffIt •
The Extractor •
The Unarchiver •
Tar•
TUGZip •
WinAce •
WinHKI•
WinRK•
WinUHA•
XADMaster.Library•
ZipGenius•
Zipeg•
ZipZag
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