Woah...and I've been using the same key since like WinZip 6.

 
Yeah, makes me wonder if they're abandoning their "Upgrades will always be free" philosophy.

WinRAR is still the best for pretty much everything.

WinZIP is almost like Java. It is just something that someone puked out one night and still lives today.

Agreed! Even WinACE which sometimes gives better compression for binary files is preferable.
However tools like WinZip are still needed in business environment due to the universal popularity of zip format. To uncompress from a Zip all you need is WinXP OS. Many users still don't know how to handle ACE/RAR as most compression tools support only zip as main format.

Aha...

"Caution, WinZip 10.0, when it is released, will not be a free upgrade. If you are a registered user of a previous version of WinZip and install WinZip 10.0, you will no longer be registered. If you have a multi-user license and you wish to try WinZip 10.0, make sure you save a backup copy of your current WinZip before installing WinZip 10.0, so you can go back to your previous registered version of WinZip, if you so desire. You do not need to uninstall your prior, registered version of WinZip. Follow the installation instructions above. You can install this version of WinZip to the same location as a previously installed copy of WinZip."

FULL VERSION PATCH___

http://www.freefilehosting.net/?id=rdnzmqzc

Nice job thormester :)

If you change the REG file put your name and save it and now have your name!

very good work

i want to be a hacker too :(

nice nfo.. but il just wait for the final version.

I've have the paid version for years, so I backed up, loaded version 10 beta and gave it a try.  Or I tried to evaluate it.  Every time I'd click to do something a box would pop up making me acknowledge that I needed to pay for it and I'd have to click that away (over and over and over) to even give it a test. 

That alone pissed me off ... hey, an occasional screen maybe but this continual hammering to buy was intrusive and just made me want to get the damn thing off my computer.  Left a bad impression.

I did manage to endure the hammering just long enough to zip a 2.5 MB file with both the old compression method and one of the new "super" routines that  are supposed to give better compression. But alas, the new routine resulted in a BIGGER file than the old routine.

Those of you looking to steal this version .. it may not even be worth that little bit of effort ... certainly not worth another $29.  Nothing like driving your existing paying customers off.  Guess that is their choice!

Oh well, WinRAR for which I also happily paid, seems to do it all anyway.  Maybe the time for WinZIP has passed. This "upgrade" should guarantee it in my opinion.

If you wanted to test WinZip 10 without having that annoying popup, all you have to do is goto Winzip.com and download the beta version from there. If you enter your e-mail address and sign up for the WinZip News you get a free registration code that registers the beta version.