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> Same for MS-DOS, at least in the early years Same for Windows throughout its history, at least for home use. But unlike WinRAR, Windows didn't run on goodwil
by buran77 1y ago
> Same for MS-DOS, at least in the early years
Same for Windows throughout its history, at least for home use. But unlike WinRAR, Windows didn't run on goodwill. MS understood the power of market share and network effects. The staying power of Windows in the enterprise comes from every new hire being familiar with Windows, its concepts, maybe even the tooling. The home user gets its dose for free because the enterprise user (and other shady deals) pays enough to cover for that.
- dtech 1y agoArguably the same is true for WinRAR. Nowadays is .zip or .7z, but .rar was very common for a long time, and wouldn't have been if WinRAR wasn't available for effectively free.
- 0points 1y agoRar is still common to this day for the same reason since the beginning: The scene standardized around rar in the 90s (after arj). https://scenerules.org/ https://scenerules.org/
- stingraycharles 1y agoThat's mostly because it allows files to be split up in parts, and as such making incremental transfers easier in case a connection is lost, right?
- pjmlp 1y agoIncremental, as in, could be easily split accross several floppies. These tools got famous in the scene before Internet was widespread.
- hdjrudni 1y agoBut 7zip (the app) opens .rar files. How does that work? Does WinRAR not own the file format?
- akdev1l 1y agoThey do and as far as I know you cannot make a rar file without WinRaR or some other authorized software https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_(file_format) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_(file_format)