I have written often about the many advantages of Chromebooks. (That includes Chromeboxes as well.) Now there is news from Google: Windows has supported these for decades, so it’s awesome to see Google’s operating system have some much-needed feature parity for users who receive zip files or other formats from their co-workers, peers, or even family members. Now, with the release of ChromeOS 101, this is finally coming to the masses!

Formats supported include:

• 7z
• bz2
• crx
• gz
• iso
• rar
• tar
• tbz
• tbz2
• tgz

This update will be rolling out to all ChromeOS operating systems in the next few days.