"Windows 11: Major Updates and New Features Revealed by Microsoft"
Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 will soon have native support for RAR and other archive formats, including tar, 7-zip, and gz, using the libarchive open-source project. This will improve the performance of archive functionality during compression on Windows. Users will no longer need to install third-party apps to access these files. The exact timing of this native RAR support is not clear, but it could be part of the upcoming Windows 11 update.