Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library

Still gonna use 7zip, the default Windows packing/unpacking interface is atrocious.

I wonder how long before I can send someone a .7z file without "hurr durr I can't open this".

Like, OpenDocument support exists in Office 2003 and I still encounter those who can't open a .odt file.

God I'm so sick of Musk spa ... wait, what? Actual technology news?

Microsoft annonces an actually useful feature for Windows once in a blue moon basically. This is one of them.

But I still hate Windows.

As someone who has daily driven Linux on all my devices for about 5 years now, I actually forgot that windows didn't have built in rar, tar and 7zip support. Absolutely bonkers that it took them this long.

Microsoft loves opensource. :P

While still using proprietary API and proprietary specs for hardware... you know the thing that gets in the way of FOSS operating systems.

Guarantee that they contributed no code back

For history fans:

LZ77 and LZ78 are the two lossless data compression algorithms published in papers by [two Israelis named] Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv in 1977 and 1978... Besides their academic influence, these algorithms formed the basis of several ubiquitous compression schemes, including GIF and the DEFLATE algorithm used in PNG and ZIP.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ77_and_LZ78

Guess now pirates have to standardise on a new proprietary format.

This is great, but I honestly hate the way that windows treats zips like they are just folders on your computer when they are fundamentally different, and I want to do different things with them. Sure, it's nice to be able to browse the files inside, but I can do that with 7zip.

That's pretty cool. Please give us our objectively-more-efficient taskbar layouts back and I'll consider "upgrading" my desktop?

If they're incorporating open libraries, Hopefully support for real filesystems will be next

Guess it's time to finally buy a WinRar license

Does it support password protected archives yet?

Another actually genuine useful update, so...

TIME TO BUY A WINRAR LICENSE!!!

...and kids, this is why you (A)GPLv3 your code. Always.

They updated the computers at work to W11 and they really fucked up the basic notepad app. It has tabs now and reopens my last draft instead of a new blank window.

On macOS, the default double click behavior just unzips the archive into a folder of the same name with no additional interface. I always thought that was a nicer implementation than opening the archive to browse the files how Linux distros usually do (and maybe Windows; I’m not a frequent Windows user). It’s probably what 90% of people want 90% of the time. Why not just make that the default and put the other use cases behind the right click menu?

And I'm still going to use WinZip anyway.

Install Linux already...