What is the difference between .msp and .zip?
- Extension
- .msp
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Phil Katz
- Description
- The msp files are used to update the Windows operating system and other Microsoft programs. Typically included with security updates or Microsoft hotfixes.
- 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/octet-stream
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia