According to The Verge , in addition to adding the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 users can now open RAR, 7-Zip, and many other open source formats. This is achieved thanks to the open source project Libarchive, which improves the performance of the decompression function on Windows, even better than third-party applications.
After many years, Windows can open compressed files like RAR or 7-Zip by default.
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Microsoft first added ZIP file support to Windows in 1998, but to work with 7-Zip (.7z), RAR (.rar), or GZ (.gz) files, users needed to install third-party applications. For example, 7-Zip is free and open source, while WinRAR offers a 40-day trial. The GZ format is more commonly used in Linux through the GNU Zip (gzip) utility along with the TAR format.
In its statement, Microsoft said that support for these formats is currently under discussion, and the company will roll them out to Windows 11 users who will receive them via an update that is being finalized later this week. However, it is not yet clear whether the functions will be supported when working with compressed files. Additional features could include password protection during both compression and decompression of files.
Microsoft's Windows and devices chief Panos Panay said that integrating productivity tools into Windows 11 will allow users to complete tasks quickly and in the best way.
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