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February 25, 2014 01:41 am GMT
WinZip, makers of the file compression utility first launched in the early 90′s that still sees north of 30 million downloads per year, is today making a shift to the cloud. The company is launchingZipShare, a file zipping, management, encryption, and sharing service that works with the major online file hosting platforms. Currently, ZipShare lets users zip and share files both from their own computer as well as fromBox, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, SugarSync, HighTail and CloudMe, with others in the works.However, it’s the file management capabilities that make ZipShare interesting. To be clear, ZipShare is not looking to become yet anther cloud storage service player itself. Instead, the company is thinking of the new service as a means of making its WinZip technology more relevant in today’s world, where many users are now creating, saving and sharing their files entirely online. WinZip had already been thinking about how the cloud will impact its business, of course. With the launch of WinZip version 17 in October 2012, it added in support for cloud services, likeDropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive, among others. But reviews of that product were somewhatmediocre. In addition, WinZip has, to a lesser extent, integrated with cloud services in its mobile apps, though that will change in time as the apps are updated with expanded support for file hosting sites. But until now, explainsJacques Lamontagne, Director of Product Management at WinZip, all the versions of the company’s software have been specific to single environments. “We wanted to create a product that was platform agnostic and to do that, we had to create a web app,” he says. He also notes that the company wanted to focus more on the sharing features of WinZip, over the compression aspects. With the new ZipShare service, in development since March 2013, you can quickly share a bigger file or files instead of attaching those items to an email – like the way you would use any cloud storage site, really. But the service is better designed to work more like a plugin to the various cloud platforms, rather than a tool that forces you to use its own storage option. That is, when you’re uploading files to ZipShare, you can specify which cloud storage site you want to use as those files’ final destination. The files are zipped up during upload, saving you storage space on your preferred service, and you
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WinZip Moves To The Cloud With Launch Of ZipShare, A Way To Zip, Manage & Share All Your Online Files
WinZip, makers of the file compression utility first launched in the early 90′s that still sees north of 30 million downloads per year, is today making a shift to the cloud. The company is launchingZipShare, a file zipping, management, encryption, and sharing service that works with the major online file hosting platforms. Currently, ZipShare lets users zip and share files both from their own computer as well as fromBox, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, SugarSync, HighTail and CloudMe, with others in the works.However, it’s the file management capabilities that make ZipShare interesting. To be clear, ZipShare is not looking to become yet anther cloud storage service player itself. Instead, the company is thinking of the new service as a means of making its WinZip technology more relevant in today’s world, where many users are now creating, saving and sharing their files entirely online. WinZip had already been thinking about how the cloud will impact its business, of course. With the launch of WinZip version 17 in October 2012, it added in support for cloud services, likeDropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft SkyDrive, among others. But reviews of that product were somewhatmediocre. In addition, WinZip has, to a lesser extent, integrated with cloud services in its mobile apps, though that will change in time as the apps are updated with expanded support for file hosting sites. But until now, explainsJacques Lamontagne, Director of Product Management at WinZip, all the versions of the company’s software have been specific to single environments. “We wanted to create a product that was platform agnostic and to do that, we had to create a web app,” he says. He also notes that the company wanted to focus more on the sharing features of WinZip, over the compression aspects. With the new ZipShare service, in development since March 2013, you can quickly share a bigger file or files instead of attaching those items to an email – like the way you would use any cloud storage site, really. But the service is better designed to work more like a plugin to the various cloud platforms, rather than a tool that forces you to use its own storage option. That is, when you’re uploading files to ZipShare, you can specify which cloud storage site you want to use as those files’ final destination. The files are zipped up during upload, saving you storage space on your preferred service, and youOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sy8PlbSFjjA/
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