What's New in WinZip 14?

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WinZip for Windows 7

Windows 7 Support
Microsoft Windows 7 includes many significant enhancements that simplify working with documents, folders, and programs. WinZip 14 takes full advantage of these new features to make working with Zip files effortless:

Libraries
Windows 7 libraries group together folders with a common theme regardless of where the folders reside. WinZip 14's support for Windows libraries allows you to create and open Zip files in these convenient, themed libraries, add files from libraries to a Zip file, and extract to libraries. You can also employ the WinZip Job Wizard to automate zipping of your libraries using our pre-defined jobs or your own custom jobs.

Jump Lists
WinZip 14 leverages Windows 7 jump lists to enable quick and easy access to frequently used zip features, recently used Zip files, and your favorite WinZip jobs—right from the task bar. It even supports the new taskbar progress meter.

Explorer Preview
WinZip 14 adds support for Zip files to the new Windows 7 Explorer preview pane, so you can instantly see what’s inside a Zip file and simply double click the zipped files to open them. This feature also lets you use the preview pane in Outlook 2007 to view and access the contents of zipped email attachments.

Touch Screens
Windows 7 touch screen gestures are fully supported in WinZip 14, enabling you to easily scroll through the contents of your Zip files and even pan, zoom, and rotate images in WinZip Pro's built-in Image Viewer without ever using your keyboard or mouse.

Dialogs
Many WinZip dialogs, including the New, Open, Add, and Extract dialogs, have been updated with the Windows 7 style and usability improvements to help you find your files and archives.

Security
We've enhanced WinZip's powerful, easy-to-use AES encryption. WinZip 14 “wipes” (or “shreds”) temporarily extracted copies of encrypted files using the U.S. Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M) to prevent them from being recovered and misused. WinZip 14 also utilizes available hardware support in certain Intel-based computers to make AES encryption operations faster.

Zipping Simplicity
WinZip 14 makes compression and encryption easier than ever. Most operations can be accessed directly with a right click in Windows Explorer, and for Windows 7 and Vista users the Add and Extract dialogs now provide even more power and simplicity. The new Search, Organize, and Views features of the Add dialog help you navigate and find the files, folders, and libraries you want to add to your Zip file.

WinZip 14 Backup edition
For the first time WinZip 14 is also available in a Backup edition. With its powerful Job Wizard users can automatically back-up important data files and upload data back-ups to an off-site server using the internal FTP client, or burn back-ups to CD or DVD. An automated email notification can even be sent upon job completion.

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New WinZip 14 offers many usability enhancements, improved security, and a new Backup Edition.

MANSFIELD, Conn. –Oct. 14, 2009—WinZip Computing, a Corel Company (NASDAQ:CREL - News; TSX:CRE - News), today announced the release of WinZip® 14.

WinZip 14 takes full advantage of the new capabilities in Windows® 7, streamlining the zipping and unzipping processes and affirming WinZip’s position at the vanguard of file compression, encryption, packaging and data backup software. In addition to the Standard edition and the full-featured Pro edition, WinZip 14 is now also available in the new Backup edition.

WinZip 14 saves time and space, making it easy to zip and unzip files for quick, efficient, and secure file transfer, email transmission, and data storage. It is the data compression choice for millions of users, including thousands of organizations, government agencies and Fortune 500 companies. More than 190 million users have downloaded copies of WinZip from CNET's download.com alone.

WinZip 14 Incorporates Windows 7 Enhancements

Windows 7 includes many significant enhancements that simplify working with documents, folders, and programs. WinZip 14 takes advantage of these new features to make working with Zip files easier than ever:

Libraries: WinZip 14 provides support for Windows 7 libraries. Libraries group together folders with a common theme; for example, the Pictures library puts all of your folders that contain pictures in one convenient place. With WinZip 14 you can simply select the Pictures library and zip all of your pictures, no matter where they are. And with the advanced JPEG compression supported in the Zipx format you can compress these pictures 20-25% without any loss of quality or data integrity. Backing up your important data is a breeze using libraries via the WinZip Job Wizard.

Jump Lists: WinZip 14 also supports the new Jump Lists. Simply pin the WinZip icon to your taskbar for quick and easy access to frequently used zip features, as well as to recently used Zip files and WinZip jobs.

Windows Touch: If you have a touch screen computer you will love WinZip’s full support for gestures—simple finger movements—on your touch screen PC. Using gestures, you can easily scroll through the contents of your Zip files. You can even pan, zoom, and rotate your images in WinZip Pro's built-in Image Viewer without touching your keyboard or mouse!

Other interface enhancements include improved Dialogs in the Windows 7 style and new filtering and organizational enhancements for finding files and archives.

Improved Security

A key reason why many users purchase WinZip is its strong, easy-to-use AES encryption. WinZip 14 introduces automatic wiping of temporary copies of encrypted files after viewing, using the U.S. Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M). In addition, WinZip 14 recognizes Intel-based computers with built-in AES encryption and uses the available hardware support to make encryption operations two to three times faster.

WinZip 14 Backup edition

For the first time WinZip 14 is also available in a Backup edition. With its powerful Job Wizard users can automatically backup important data files and upload data backups to an off-site server using the internal FTP client, or burn backups to CD or DVD. An automated email notification can be sent upon job completion.

Availability

WinZip 14 is available now. Pricing starts at $29.95 (USD) for WinZip 14 Standard edition, $39.95 (USD) for Backup edition and $49.95 (USD) for Pro edition. Attractive volume licensing discounts are available. Existing registered users can upgrade to WinZip 14 at 50% of the new license fee.

Download links and ordering information can be found on the WinZip web site at http://www.winzip.com.

About WinZip Computing

Founded in 1991, WinZip Computing was acquired by Corel Corporation in 2006. WinZip Computing continues to offer the world's most popular Zip utility for Windows®, WinZip, along with WinZip® Self-Extractor and WinZip® E-Mail Companion.