Released on: September 7, 2007, 8:23 am

Press Release Author: wir.rar GmbH

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: WinRAR, is the first runner-up for the Software of the Year
award at IFA Show in Berlin, Germany.

Press Release Body: Berlin, Germany --September 07, 2007-- win.rar GmbH and RARLAB
are pleased to announce that WinRAR has recently won the prestigious Software of the
Year award 2007. WinRAR secured the second position in the list of best software
products in the System category.

The awards were announced at the annual IFA show, held in Berlin on August 30th,
2007. A panel of experts nominated 10 programs in each product category specified by
Softwareload: Office & Finance, CD & DVD, Desktop, Hobby & Leisure, Internet,
Multimedia, Security, System and Tuning. The panel consisted of reputed journalists
and editors of well known computer magazines like PC Magazin & magnus.de, PC-WELT,
etc. WinRAR was up against nominated industry leaders in the System category. The
voting went on for four weeks and the awards received an overwhelming response as
more than 600,000 unique votes were casted this year.

Commenting on this win and accepting the award, Mr. Oncul Kaya, Managing Director of
win.rar GmbH, said, "We were very pleased to learn that we have won this award,
specially when this has been voted by the consumers. Winning this award in a field
of almost 100 entries validates our strategic importance in the market. This year
has been a great year for industry recognition for WinRAR, which gives us hope that
we are, indeed, making a best-of-breed product that really meets customer needs".
Commenting on the user support which enabled WinRAR to win the Silver award, added
Mr. Kaya, "We would like to thank all of our customers for voting for us and for
their continued loyalty and enthusiasm."

About WinRAR and win.rar GmbH

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and
archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 percent better than
ZIP files. WinRAR\'s main features are very strong general and multimedia
compression, processing of non- RARarchives, long filename support, programmable
self-extracting archives(SFX), damaged archive repair, authenticity verification,
embedded file comments, and encryption. WinRAR is available in over 45 different
languages and runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista. The
command line version RAR is available for Linux, DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and MAC OS X.
Pocket RAR, the free WinRAR version for Pocket PCs and the new WinRAR for U3
complete the compression product range. So WinRAR simply is \"The Size Solution\".

win.rar GmbH is the official publisher for WinRAR and RARLAB products since February
2002 and handles all support, marketing and sales related to WinRAR & rarlab.com.
win.rar GmbH is located in Germany and is represented globally through its local
partners in 6 continents and in more than 80 countries. The company is dedicated to
offering the highest level of quality support to its customers, and to constantly
improving its software according to their needs and feedback. For more information
about WinRAR and win.rar GmbH please visit www.win-rar.com.


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Contact Details: Company:
win.rar GmbH

Website:
www.win-rar.com

Email:
press@win-rar.com

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