Earlier this week, Microsoft Vice President and Chief Product Officer Panos Panay announced that Windows 11 will soon offer built-in support for tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and other archive formats. The first screenshots of how exactly these formats will be supported and the timeline for the rollout of the new feature have also surfaced today.Unarchive first, then compression
Microsoft product manager Sharla Soennichsen confirmed at the Microsoft Developer Conference that the update that will add tar, 7z, rar, gz and other archive files decompression support to Windows 11 will be available to users in September. In addition, she added that the compression option without using additional software will be added in 2024. “We also plan to provide support for creating files in these formats in 2024,” says Soennihsen. said.
At Microsoft’s annual Build 2023 developer conference, the company introduced a number of AI-driven innovations for Windows 11. These include the AI (artificial intelligence) chatbot Bing Chat, smart plugins, new tools for developers using Windows, GitHub and Windows Terminal, and replacing Cortana with Copilot.
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