For the first time we held a Compression Utilities Member Poll. In 2008, the top program was WinRAR
The poll can be found here »[POLL] Compresssion Utilities - 2008 Member Choice Poll
WinRar, 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:
•Alpha Zip
•ALZip
•Beezer
•BitZipper
•BOMArchiveHelper [built into Mac OS X]
•Built-in Windows Compression utility [Part of Windows 98 Plus!/ME/XP/2003/Vista],
•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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