This is something that has always perplexed me. I remember when MS first included compression on the right click menu and thought to myself "this is great, no more having to install a separate program". Then I used it and was let down by how slow it was and never used it again.
Why, with their limitless resources, could they not invest a little bit into making it just as good as the freely available stuff out there? A company which was a fraction of the size could have done it, but why not MS? I don't know what their current compression offerings are because I haven't checked in years, but man, they really sucked when they first came out. I use 7-zip now.
My guess would be they used 1 banana code monkeys to write it, using all the compiler options for buffer overflow checks, and didn't use any optimization flags.
7-Zip on Windows, or 'apt-get install zip && apt-get install unzip' on Debian/Ubuntu is what you want. I don't know on Mac, I've just used the built-in OS facilities for Zip files there.
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1 u/Day_of_the_rope 08 Jul 2016 05:22
Who the hell uses winzip anymore.
Right click. Choose --- Send to compressed file.
But Screw microsoft.. 7zip is better
0 u/Macdaddy5000 08 Jul 2016 05:30
Yeah, it's several times faster than MS zip function, but the 7z format compresses even better than zip.
0 u/RewriteFullwise 09 Jul 2016 16:48
This is something that has always perplexed me. I remember when MS first included compression on the right click menu and thought to myself "this is great, no more having to install a separate program". Then I used it and was let down by how slow it was and never used it again.
Why, with their limitless resources, could they not invest a little bit into making it just as good as the freely available stuff out there? A company which was a fraction of the size could have done it, but why not MS? I don't know what their current compression offerings are because I haven't checked in years, but man, they really sucked when they first came out. I use 7-zip now.
0 u/Macdaddy5000 10 Jul 2016 08:53
My guess would be they used 1 banana code monkeys to write it, using all the compiler options for buffer overflow checks, and didn't use any optimization flags.
0 u/dizzydog 08 Jul 2016 09:33
That's an antique piece of software right there.
7-Zip on Windows, or 'apt-get install zip && apt-get install unzip' on Debian/Ubuntu is what you want. I don't know on Mac, I've just used the built-in OS facilities for Zip files there.