Mac users however, did not enjoy this “built-in” support for the file format until Mac OS X 10.3 when the Archive Utility was added to the operating system.
The format has been supported via third party utility since its creation and has seen built-in support in the Windows and Mac OS X operating systems added over the past several years. The zip file format has been around since the late 1980s and provides computer users with the ability to compress one to many files.
