Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major...

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

  • WuTang English
    50•7 months ago

    Microsoft loves opensource. :P

    While still using proprietary API and proprietary specs for hardware… you know the thing that gets in the way of FOSS operating systems.

    • lieuwestra English
      11•7 months ago

      Microsoft loves Azure, anything else is there to draw people in.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•7 months ago

      Like Google and pretty much every other tech giant.

      Google are extremely keen on supporting open source when it hits their competitors but when it’s about their own business they pretty much avoids ot. They took Linux and created Android… they the practically locked it down by moving more and more essentials into Play Services… which by some of reason isn’t open source.

    • @RoyaltyInTrainingEnglish
      5•7 months ago

      Translation: Microsoft loves using code that other people wrote for free