Last year, Microsoft added support for 7zip and tar formats to Windows 11; In this way, operating system users can open such archives without the need to use third-party applications. However, creating 7zip and tar archives still requires a third-party archiver.

However, this will change soon. The fact is that Microsoft began testing the function of creating 7zip and tar archives as part of the Windows Insider evaluation program. It is not stated exactly when this innovation will be available to the public, but it will probably depend on how the testing phase goes.

“We’ve added support for creating 7ZIP and TAR archives in addition to ZIP via the context menu in Explorer. We’ve also added a new compression wizard that lets you choose more formats and specify more details. You can also convert individual files to GZIP/BZIP2 (and others).” You can compress or add multiple files to archives in different TAR formats with different compression options. You can also change the compression level and the types of data stored in each archive.Microsoft said in a statement.

In addition to the function of creating 7zip and tar archives, the developers have added several new emojis to the operating system and integrated more options for interacting with them. However, the update also included fixes to improve the stability of the software platform.