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Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in (www.engadget.com)
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Microsoft is releasing a big Windows 11 update on September 26. Update 23H2 includes the new AI-powered Windows Copilot feature, a native RAR app, a new volume mixer and a lot more.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People using WinRAR. "Why would people use WinRAR?" It has more features than 7zip (password, encryption, profile presets especially).

If you're asking why Microsoft would include it as a format for their extremely basic compression tool built into Explorer... why not, it's one of the top three formats.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

more features than 7zip (password, encryption,

Eh? 7zip supports these.

profile presets

I have to admit, I'm not familiar with this feature.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I mean is more options for those features. The profiles and password tools are especially clever. (Examples: Password organizer can be locked with short master password, great for quickly decrypting archives matching ANY stored password. Profiles can quickly encrypt using specific settings, including super-long saved password without entering it.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, I see what you mean. 7zip's password support looks pretty simple in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But that's WinRAR not rar file format, no?