Microsoft has been licensing its exFAT flash file format for licensing for a while now. In case you forgot, on December 10, the company reminded folks that exFAT is available for licensing. exFAT, or ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EaseUS, a global leader in partition management and disk optimization software, announced the upcoming release of EaseUS Partition Master 20.0, redefining what ...

RIM has big ambitions for media on BlackBerry hardware -- really big. Accordingly, it just reached a patent licensing deal with Microsoft that lets it use the exFAT file system on "certain BlackBerry ...

Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you're using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, ...

IT之家 4 月 2 日消息，科技媒体 NeoWin 昨日（4 月 1 日）发布博文，报道称索尼工程师 Yuezhang Mo 再次提交 Linux 补丁，修复 exFAT 堆栈损坏、错误返回等问题外，还大幅删除文件性能，删除 80GB 文件时间从 287 秒缩短至 2 秒，效率提升 172 倍。 IT之家注：exFAT（Extensible ...

For years, Microsoft used its patents as a way to profit from open-source products. The poster-child for Microsoft's intellectual property aggression were the File Allocation Table (FAT) patents. But ...

In its latest gesture to the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. today pledged to make its widely used exFAT file system available on Linux. The software, which is also known as the Extended File ...

When you purchase a new storage drive, it may tell you it needs reformatting, but which format is best? The main options for removable drives and memory cards these days are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, ...

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