Windows 11 native 7-Zip support's impact on Total Commander's development

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For Windows 11, Microsoft is currently rolling out native support for several archive formats, including 7-Zip.

Gradual rollout
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New! This update affects File Explorer. You can now create 7-Zip and Tape Archive (TAR) files using the context menu. When you right-click a file, a Compress to item gives you ways to compress a file using tools like gzip, bzip2, and more. There is also a new compression wizard in Additional options. It will help you choose more formats and add details. You can use different types of compression to add many files to archives in other TAR formats. You can also change the compression level and choose the types of data to store in each archive.

What does this mean (or what should it mean) for Total Commander's development?

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It means that even less people will look for a third party tool to unpack these archive types.

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It means that even less people will look for a third party tool to unpack these archive types.

If you say that was already a low number, then that does not matter much. TC does have features that are not in explorer and that have high value. For example using compare and synchronize dirs within archives. Perhaps it means more people are gonna use archives and these benefits of TC become more important. Perhaps it means TC can in the future utilize the native functions of Windows for an out-of-the-box and smooth performance.