28 Years Later, Windows Finally Supports RAR Files

An anonymous reader shares a report: Then, at some point, someone at Microsoft must have gotten fed up with rushing their.rar operations the way I have for 20 years and thought, there must be a better way. And so, under the subheading of 'Reducing toil,' we have a few helpful UI updates, then casually and apropos of nothing, this:

'In addition...

We have added native support for additional archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and many others using the libarchive open-source project. You now can get improved performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows.'

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