Tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and more will all be supported in a Windows 11 update. Tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and more will all be supported in a Windows 11 update. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...

Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will soon include native support for RAR files. This development marks a significant change, as it eliminates the requirement for users to rely on third-party ...

Shh. Listen. Do you hear that? That noise is the sound of system builders around the world cheering, because they can finally cross WinRAR off the list of mandatory programs to install after setting ...

Microsoft shipped a pair of Windows 11 Insider builds to the Beta Channel this week. Build 22631.2199 has new features enabled, while Build 22621.2199 has them off by default. This update adds native ...

Microsoft has quietly announced that it will support opening RAR files on Windows 11. The file format typically requires WinRAR or another file compression app. ZIP is a popular file compression ...

The Microsoft Build developer’s conference has been heavily focused on all things AI, per usual, but the company’s making announcements in other spaces, including a particularly useful update for ...

As a file compression format, the 'RAR format', which has a higher compression rate than 'ZIP' and is one of the features that the file size can be reduced, is finally supported natively on Windows, ...

Microsoft has recently rolled out the Moment 3 update to Windows 11 and it brings several new features and changes. The company has also announced the native .RAR file support for the operating system ...

As reported by TechCrunch, Winrar or 7zip will no longer be a necessity when trying to extract .RAR files as the format will be supported in native Windows. The update was shared in the latest Windows ...

To open compressed files or control the RGB lighting on your PC accessories, you usually need to download a third-party app. But Microsoft is now working to bake these functions into Windows 11.

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Microsoft’s Windows 11 desktop operating system (OS) will get native support for several additional archive formats — including Roshal Archive, commonly shortened to RAR. The announcement was made in ...