What is the difference between .wim and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .wim
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- The GNU Project
- Description
- It is a file-based disk image format created by Microsoft for its latest Windows OS releases, Windows Server 2008 and the Windows Vista. Windows Imaging Format (wim), is used for the standard installation method of the OS.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-ms-wim
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .wim on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia