Windows 11 Big News – End of WinRAR

In this article, we will talk about some Big Windows 11 News, related to the Default Archiving Tool, which is getting native support for more formats.

In recent Microsoft news, they announced a lot of New AI-Based features in Windows 11, more Developer Options and also more formats supported natively in Windows 11 for Archives.

Microsoft is stating the following: We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows.

This could also mean the End of some third-party tools such as WinRAR or 7-Zip, because a lot of users will most likely choose to use what’s default in Windows 11.

For more information about this, you can check this article from the Microsoft Blog.

For a more in-depth explanation over this, you can watch the video below from the youtube channel.

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