2023-06-01 08:29:16
WinRAR reacts to Microsoft’s announcement regarding Windows 11 support for .rar archives. The concern is palpable through a shared feeling.
Microsoft has decided to improve the compatibility of Windows 11 with different compression formats (Windows 11 will support tar, 7-zip, RAR or even gz archives). Clearly the OS will natively support formats other than ZIP. We can evoke the tar, the 7-zip, the gz or even the rar.
This advance will improve the experience and simplify the life of the user during certain tasks. Is it good news for everyone? The use of a specific utility will no longer be necessary, which worries some publishers such as win.rar GmbH, the origin of the famous WinRAR.
Contacted by our colleague Neowin about this WinRAR has a mixed feeling and the concern is palpable. If the joke is in order at the beginning the answer quickly takes a more serious turn
It took Microsoft 30 years to implement RAR file support in the Windows operating system, […] now we wonder if they also plan to supply the RAR engine in another 30 years […] We hope this will make RAR compression even more popular and accessible to users who are unfamiliar with WinRAR.
Louise Cusworth, from the commercial department of WinRAR explains
Although users will still need WinRAR to create RAR files, they will no longer need it to open their .rar files.
WinRAR hopes that the community, which will continue to support small software vendors, will be large enough to keep WinRAR development work going. Innovation seems necessary to offer much more than the native “future” of Windows 11. A major update is planned by the end of the year.
WinRAR is a proprietary data compression utility. It was developed by Eugene Roshal. The application is offered for free as a trial version. Its mechanics uses a proprietary compression algorithm, the RAR while being able to offer compression in other formats such as “ZIP” and extract archives in 7z, bzip2, ARJ, CAB, gzip, ISO, JAR formats. , LZH, TAR, UUE and Z.
Among its advanced features we have the creation of self-extracting archives for Windows. It is an executable file offering to decompress itself without the need for decompression software. The utility manages multi-file archives and data encryption.
It was launched on April 22, 1995
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