

Microsoft's compressed file support will be handled by the open source libarchive project, and the list of file types that can be compressed and extracted will presumably match the list on libarchive's GitHub page. But other kinds of archives still required downloading and installing a separate app like 7-Zip or WinRAR and its endless "40-day" trial. zip files-then and now, the most common type of compressed archive-to Windows Me back in the year 2000, though most people encountered it in 2001's Windows XP.

Microsoft told The Verge that the feature would be added "later this week" to a "work-in-progress" build it may or may not be exclusive to Windows Insider preview builds before rolling out to the general public. Further Reading Built-in ChatGPT-driven Copilot will transform Windows 11 starting in June
