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Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Re: Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Post by johnnyworker »

> native RAR and 7-zip file support

That's pathetic. You know what a cool OS would do? Allow the user to install datatype handlers for such things without MS even being involved other than providing the API. 30 years ago.

Not that I really care. Microsoft announced Windows 10 as their final OS, so as far as I'm concerned, once they stop supporting that, they no longer have an OS.

Re: Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Post by voldacar »

johnnyworker wrote: post #2

> native RAR and 7-zip file support That's pathetic. You know what a cool OS would do? Allow the user to install datatype handlers for such things without MS even being involved other than providing the API. 30 years ago. Not that I really care. Microsoft announced Windows 10 as their final OS, so as far as I'm concerned, once they stop supporting that, they no longer have an OS.

Amiga did something like that.

Re: Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Post by zamadatix »

johnnyworker wrote: post #2

> native RAR and 7-zip file support That's pathetic. You know what a cool OS would do? Allow the user to install datatype handlers for such things without MS even being involved other than providing the API. 30 years ago. Not that I really care. Microsoft announced Windows 10 as their final OS, so as far as I'm concerned, once they stop supporting that, they no longer have an OS.

You can already do this, the existing zip tool was itself just a plug-in to Explorer before it was bought by Microsoft, ironically around 30 years ago. Other tools use to do this for ISOs until that got added natively as well.

If you don't want to do that though you can also just merge support into libarchive, it's the open source project they are leveraging.

Re: Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Post by zamadatix »

vyrotek wrote: post #4

Sure, AI is great. But the real highlight is them finally bringing back taskbar ungrouping!

So glad it's back! Can't understand why they didn't at least have an "equal size" option to keep them all from being different sizes based on the window title.

Re: Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Post by vyrotek »

zamadatix wrote: post #7
vyrotek wrote: post #4

Sure, AI is great. But the real highlight is them finally bringing back taskbar ungrouping!

So glad it's back! Can't understand why they didn't at least have an "equal size" option to keep them all from being different sizes based on the window title.

Welp, nevermind. It appears the article was updated and those features aren't in this release.

Re: Windows 11’s next big update arrives on September 26th with Copilot, RAR support

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

johnnyworker wrote: post #2

> native RAR and 7-zip file support That's pathetic. You know what a cool OS would do? Allow the user to install datatype handlers for such things without MS even being involved other than providing the API. 30 years ago. Not that I really care. Microsoft announced Windows 10 as their final OS, so as far as I'm concerned, once they stop supporting that, they no longer have an OS.

It already does and you already can if you're the 1% (Yes it probably is that low) who knows what rar is and how to install the software. But after this you can also send a 7z/RAR file to your grandparents and know they'll be able to open it without also becoming 7zip tech support.
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