[cliglot]

> I can open a zip in a normal file explorer window just fine.

I was even under the impression they added support in explorer for extracting other types of archives (tar, maybe 7zip).

[Tsiklon]

Partly, windows defender can open and scan the contents of many archives, but extraction of several popular formats isn’t possible

[Sohcahtoa82]

That makes no god damn sense.

That means that the code to extract exists on the file system, but only Windows Defender uses it.

[UqWBcuFx6NV4r]

It doesn’t “make no goddam sense”. it’s just not convenient for you. There are so many potential “valid” reasons. Licensing? Bad optics?

[TheSeeker11]

They did. One can compress natively to TAR and 7z.

[tracker1]

7z was added to Win11 as well as .zip ... noticed it on my assigned work computer.