Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major...

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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Office support also exists for the majority of editors so why not just use what people are used to?

Why not just send a zip?

There’s no advantage to the receiver for either of these.

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Zip almost always results in larger archive files…

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ODF works on everything. It’s reliable and fully documented. The MS office implementation contradicts its own specification and breaks. A lot.

The PK-Zip file format was released in the year 1989. The compression is terrible by modern standards.

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