The ability to compress and extract ZIP files in Windows first appeared in the Windows 98 expansion pack, Microsoft Plus! 98, released in June 1998. This ZIP file compression and decompression ...

How to Open a Zip File in Excel 2007. A ZIP file usually contains several other files that have been compressed to a smaller size and bundled into a single package with a .zip filename extension.

Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed a file copy problem with the .ZIP compressed file solution in the Windows 10 'October 2018 Update.' ...

Microsoft has announced native (as in, built-in) support for 7-Zip file and RAR file formats in Windows 11 22H2.

Microsoft is working on a fix for a Zip extraction bug that exists in the October 2018 Update for Windows 10.

Microsoft has released a fix for its ZIP extraction failure, which affects the few users who installed the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, version 1809, before the rollout was halted.

Former Microsoft employee Dave Plummer shares how he almost got fired for adding ZIP file support to Windows 30 years ago.

7-zip has finally added support for the long-requested 'Mark-of-the-Web' Windows security feature, providing better protection from malicious downloaded files.