It's likely a combination of tradition/habit and compatibility. Tar.gz is widely supported on *nix systems, and while 7z is highly efficient, its not as widely supported and may need additional libraries or software to work on some systems,/distros
Yay this is now a URL. If your intention was not to post a URL to some random website not loading anything but javadscript, put a "" before the link I guess
Because of your comment, I did a quick google search and pretty much every source says that .tar.gz is also pretty ancient and not that good (from a compression point of view). For better compression, you can use the xz or 7zip formats. The former is more used on Linux, if that's what you're using.
We might be able to deal with lack of windows support by running something else or using WSL (edit correcting me being an idiot: or a third party extractor program, duh).
But the fact remains it's a pretty huge install base and when sending files, especially in something like a work setting, it's best to cause the least amount of friction possible.
Yep, but Windows is still the majority right now... And i'm sure there are a lot of people out there that don't have 7zip installed (why doesn't MS include their own implementation already ?)
let me rephrase, "people who only install two or three softwares on their computer without wanting to learn "complicated" stuff such as archive format. and browse facebook too."
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