> Zip is built into literally everything. I don't really want to have to download another application to unpack something I get. There's a more interesting que

> Zip is built into literally everything. I don't really want to have to download another application to unpack something I get. There's a more interesting question lying in there: "Zip is built into literally everything." From my anecdotal evidence with random Windows software, for said support, developers probably bundled 7zip in order to support compressed file formats. Granted, in the end the fact that 7zip is bundled, or if 7zip and it's several features are exposed to you as a end-user is another story.