What is the difference between .msi and .zip?
- Extension
- .msi
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Phil Katz
- 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 ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-ole-storage
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .msi on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia