The American company Microsoft announced that the new version of the Windows 11 operating system will have built-in support for RAR and 7-ZIP archives, among other file types. According to this BorderOS users have been waiting for this feature for decades.
“Windows 11 will now support RAR by default and many other archive formats that Windows users have been waiting for for decades. This is ideal if you use archives with a lot of files in them, journalists said.
Panos Panay, head of Windows, assured that the company will also improve the performance of its archiving functions while compressing files using an inbuilt Windows tool.
“We have added built-in support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and much more using the libarchive open source project,” the CEO added.
Microsoft added that support for the new formats will be available for the first time in a new preview build of Windows 11 later this week.
In past decades, users had to install third-party apps to access these files. By default, only native support for ZIP archives worked in previous Windows operating systems.
In mid-May, Windows 11 users after installing the update reported About a noticeable decrease in the speed of the VPN connection.