Microsoft Is Making File Explorer More Powerful With Version Control and 7z Compression

Microsoft Is Making File Explorer More Powerful With Version Control and 7z Compression

Sean Hollister reports via The Verge: At Build, Microsoft now says it’s adding native version control to File Explorer by integrating systems like Git, letting you see new changes and comments directly from the app. Here’s a cropped and zoomed version of the provided screenshot so you can get a better look. […] Microsoft says it’s also letting File Explorer natively compress files to 7-zip and TAR; currently, the right-click context menu has a “Compress to ZIP file” option, but ZIP is thought to be a bit antiquated in terms of how much compression you get.

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