What is the difference between .msi and .gzip?
- Extension
- .msi
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- GNU
- Description
- It is a file that store all information needed by the Windows Installer to install or uninstall a software. It contains all the requirements for efficient and flawless package installation on Windows OS.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-ole-storage
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .msi on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia