Developers of the WinRAR archiver sell about 10 thousand licenses for their program every month. about this reports Habr portal with a link to a reply on behalf of the company on social network X (formerly Twitter).
Sales volumes of the program were announced by the WinRAR SMM manager on social networks. In addition, on behalf of the company, it thanks users on social networks for every license purchase. Sales of approximately 10 thousand licenses show that the demand for the product is high in the market.
It is noteworthy that the free version of the archiver has the same functions as the paid version. However, even though there is no urgent need for this, many users still purchase the program. The cost of a permanent license is 26 US dollars (about 2.8 thousand rubles). Thus, the application brings the RARLab company an average of 28 million rubles.
In January 2022, developers stopped supporting Windows XP; The archiver is compatible with computers running Windows Vista and newer.
WinRAR has been around since 1993. The program was created by Chelyabinsk programmer Evgeny Roshal. The current version of WinRAR 7 is available free of charge by purchasing a permanent license, with or without a trial period warning.
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Source: Gazeta
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