BleepingComputerMicrosoft is adding native support for RAR, 7-Zip, and GZ archives to an upcoming version of Windows 11 expected this week.
Jerry 🦙💝🦙Super. Now we can open the .rar malware that comes in via email without any additional software @BleepingComputer
Kevin Karhan 
Alexander The 1st@kkarhan @jerry @BleepingComputer I was going to say - wouldn't the delivery mechanism be by a .zip malformed domain?
Lesley Carhart 
@jerry @BleepingComputer mmmmmm my feelings are quite mixed
Taggart@hacks4pancakes @jerry @BleepingComputer My question is whether it'll ship with ASAR support, allowing us to easily crack open all those lovely Electron apps.
Tindra@hacks4pancakes @jerry @BleepingComputer yeah, people not trying to install weird stuff to unpack their legit packed files has some definite positives.
Matt Cengia@jerry do average people still actually *use* RAR files anymore? Feels like Microsoft would be better served scrapping RAR and adding BZ2 , LZ, XZ, Zstd, etc.
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Cameron@mattcen I’ve been told .RAR is much more popular than .zip in certain foreign countries, perhaps due to the close relation with torrenting.
Ichinin 
✅🎯🙄@mattcen @jerry @BleepingComputer Average people don't but some malware actors use rar for collecting and exfiltrating data.
Johannes 
@jerry @BleepingComputer what's next? a .rar TLD?
kaoudis
Jim Mahony@jerry @BleepingComputer yea, we would have been just fine without this
Sergei Vasilevsky@jerry @BleepingComputer will this change also bring better native support for strong archive encryption (e.g. AES256, as opposed to zipcrypto which takes less than a minute to crack)? We shouldn’t have to choose between broken encryption and running a 3rd party tool, which carries its own risk
For I am CJ 
All we need now is for someone to approve a .rar top level domain!
smuglispweenie@jerry "Without downloading additional malware".
spmatich vk3spm 
@BleepingComputer I used to think Microsoft was a company that produced software. Seems they prefer to aggregate software produced by others.
キャリー@spmatich @BleepingComputer This is basic functionality. It is surprising that this wasn't always built into Windows.
@BleepingComputer Windows users bragging about never buying a piece of software is part of why the Microsoft Store app will continue to be a wasteland.
Andrzej Stamburski@BleepingComputer Wow! Such feature in 2023 will make me switch to Windows 11 from Linux..., probably... (not) ;-)
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Jay 🆘@BleepingComputer I want to watch a documentary about data compression formats
Charlie@BleepingComputer Microsoft on the ball again with its innovation by adding native support for a 30 year old compression algorithm, _finally_.
*slowclaps*
John Breen@BleepingComputer Wake me up when they disallow spaces in directory and file names.
Jernej Simončič �@jab01701mid @BleepingComputer Why would you remove useful features? Fix your software instead.
Alun Jones@BleepingComputer I thought Windows supported .gz files through its support of tar? What next, ARC and ZOO?
(Someone's reading this and going "Windows doesn't have tar" - yes it does, and has for a few years now)
(Someone's reading this and going "Windows doesn't have tar" - yes it does, and has for a few years now)
𝟢𝚡𝙵𝟢𝟫𝙵𝟪𝟨𝟪𝟩@BleepingComputer Between Autorun getting resurrected and RAR support, I'm thinking it's only a matter of time until Live Tiles break out of the Start Menu and it's Active Desktop all over again...
Neutronstar21@BleepingComputer about bleeping time!
Parisninla@BleepingComputer wow. It’s only taken them like 20 years.
Steve@BleepingComputer is this to bolster their password-protected archive malware scans?
Brain@BleepingComputer only took them 30 years. Still waiting for a log tailer