It’s been a very long time coming, however Windows 11 can now unpack a number of the hottest compression recordsdata on the net. Initially announced back in May, the brand new “Moment 4” update provides a bunch of Copilot AI features and extra. But who cares about that, as a result of it additionally lets Windows natively entry 7-Zip, RAR, GZ, and plenty of different common compression and archiving file codecs.

It’s odd that it took this lengthy for Windows so as to add this performance, since native assist for ZIP recordsdata was added waaaaaaay again in Windows ME. This implies that thousands and thousands of customers will now not want third-party instruments just like the notorious, reset-your-installation-every-30-days WinRAR or 7-Zip. The different file kind additions, as famous by Bleeping Computer, are .tar, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst. .tar.xz. .tgz, .tzst. and .txz.

The optionally available add-on needs to be out there in Windows 11’s Windows Update menu beginning in the present day, if in case you have the “Get the latest updates as soon as they are available” possibility checked, although it could take a couple of days for the KB5031455 replace file to propagate all over the world. The “Moment 4” replace is anticipated to begin being mechanically pushed to all Windows 11 customers on November 14.