Archived files require password on PC's

I have posted a .zip file created by archiving a file on my Mac on my server. Mac users can go to the URL and download it with no problem but PC users get a zip file that requires a password to expand it. According to the original zip file by looking in Get Info, there are no permission restrictions. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you in advance if you can as I am desperate to get these file to a PC user.

Hi Dozib,
Yes you'll be able to open those files at school, print them, edit them, only if they have a Mac running Pages, Numbers, or Keynote. Remember only those programs can read their own files, there isn't any reader available for them.
Heck for a long time MS didn't have a reader for their DOCX and the like. Interestingly the Mac could read them without a reader however, Windows users couldn't. Windows users had to await for MS to create a reader for them to use—much frustration in MS land.
Many DOCX files that others couldn't open were sent to me to open convert them to MS Word or Excel older version such as Office for XP. We won many Windows converts from that.
As for Open Office, Neo Office: yes their file formats are proprietary however, there's good news. Go into the preferences of those programs there you'll be able to have them natively save word processing documents as MS Word (.DOC), spreadsheet files as Excel (.XLS), Presentation files as Powerpoint (PPT). From then on when you save a word processing file it will automatically save it in MS Word format with the extension as <file name>.doc. The same when working on an spreadsheet file saving it will automatically save it as a MS Excel with the extension as <file name>.XLS.
See it's very simple to setup those programs to do exactly what you need—save file in MS Office format. When I install OpenOffice for someone that's the first thing I do is set it to save in MS Office file format. Everyone is amazed and pleased.
Finally, Henrik Holmegaard, is correct about the standards publishers. Once a standard file format is agreed upon then it shouldn't matter what word processing program one uses the files would be interchangeable. As he said "they're yet not there" maybe never will be there's too much at stake for vendors to allow that to happen. All the while us endusers work in "quiet desperation".
Hope my above comments answered your questions to your satisfaction.
Cordially,
RicD

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