Microsoft held its annual Microsoft Build 2023 developer conference on Tuesday (5/23). This year, Microsoft will focus on hot AI topics.Published Windows Copilot, an AI assistant that can assist Windows 11 users with tasksIn addition, Windows 11 will soon add support for multiple archive formats, including Tar, 7-ZIP, RAR, and GZ, to improve the archive performance on Windows.
Microsoft has previously integrated support for the ZIP archive format in Windows, but to handle other formats, users must install additional third-party programs,This time Microsoft plans to integrate the libarchive open source projectso that Windows can directly support various archive formats.
libarchive is a multi-format archiving and compression library that can be used to read and write different formats, covering the above-mentioned Tar, 7-ZIP, RAR and GZ, as well as Pax, Cpio, ISO9660, Mtree, Ar and WARC, etc.
Microsoft revealed to The VergeWindows 11 support for the new format will appear in a new version released this week.
