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Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by jraph on Monday April 15, 2019 @02:59PM (#19667895)
I guess this is the reason: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98...

> Since its release in Windows XP, Zip folders has not been actively developed. The reason is the usual: Because adding features requires engineering resources, and engineering resources are limited. Furthermore, since the compression and decompression code weren’t written by anybody from Microsoft, there is no expertise in the code base, which means that debugging and making changes is a very difficult undertaking.

Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by code_duck on Monday April 15, 2019 @07:58PM (#19669930)
“Because adding features requires engineering resources, and engineering resources are limited.“

seems to translate to ‘because we really don’t care’. It’s not as if Microsoft is strapped for cash.

Re:Adblock Plus filter lists may execute arbitrary code in w... by metildaa on Monday April 15, 2019 @11:11PM (#19670830)
At least they haven't purged it, if this were Google then there would be no ZIP support in newer OS versions.

They even killed ChromeOS ans Chorme updates for a bunch of 3 to 4 year old Chromebooks recently, despite the hardware being fine to run newer ChromeOS.