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Microsoft adding .rar and .7z files extraction to Windows 11.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734463/windows-11-will-soon-have-native-rar-support
..Archive formats like tar, 7-zip, RAR, gz and many others will now be supported using the libarchive open-source project.
IMHO, your topic title is extremely misleading!
There’s absolutely nothing in the article you link to that indicates Win11 users won’t be able to still download, install and use WinRAR, 7-zip or other 3rd party archive extractors if they choose to. So exactly “how” does Microsoft’s adding native support for more archive formats justify a claim they’ve killed WinRAR and 7-zip.
In fact, if their “native support” for extracting .7z, .gz, .rar, etc. archives is like what they use for .zip archives (which it most likely will be), I’d be willing to bet a lot of users will still want to use WinRAR or 7-zip because those programs offer way more options than simply “extracting” the contents of the archive.
Personally, I’ve been using 7-zip instead of Windows “native support” for dealing with compressed files for a very long time because I wanted more control than Windows “native support” provided.
Raymond Chen’s blog had an interesting article about zip file support in Windows which explained why it is so limited. Why is Windows Compressed Folders (Zip folders) support stuck at the turn of the century?
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