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It still shocks me that windows can’t sort folders by size

I'm just grateful we're not counting file shit in "blocks" anymore.

Up until very recently we couldn't even open zip files without a helper software. Unsure why microsoft doesn't add things like powertoys by default.

Zip file support has been in Windows since 98 (via the Plus pack) or Me (2000). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_(file_format)

Think they just added 7z and rar support very recently though. But zip has been in there for ages... I use it all the time.

I meant rar. Sorry heh

Your first statement is already refuted by other commenters.

For the second, the reason is offical software support, internationalization and accessibility. Microsoft provides certain guarantees for its officially released software. They don't want to provide those for Powertoys.

25 years ago is not "recently".

In technology years it's getting longer every year.

Windows could open zip files all the way back to the XP era....

or reproduce something like ZipMagic (iirc, so defunct that its website is gone)