Neowin News Feed for: Exfat

Microsoft's exFAT is getting absolutely huge performance boost on Linux again thanks to Sony

Sayan Sen — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:30:01 +0000

Microsoft's exFAT file system is again getting a huge performance boost on Linux. And once more, Sony is at the forefront. Read more...

Microsoft's exFAT to get massive performance boost on Linux again, thanks to Sony

Sayan Sen — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:46:02 +0000

Microsoft's exFAT file system is about to get much faster on Linux thanks to contributions from Sony. This is the second time this year that exFAT is looking at such a large performance uplift. Read more...

Rufus 3.21 with improved Windows local account support, NTFS, exFAT, now available for all

Sayan Sen — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 06:12:01 +0000

Rufus version 3.21 is now generally available. The latest update brings several improvements related to Windows like better local account support and file system support, among others. Read more...

Linus Torvalds is not much of a fan of GitHub's "absolutely useless garbage merges"

Sayan Sen — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 14:22:01 +0000

Linus Torvalds is not at all a fan of GitHub merges as he revealed recently in a response to a pull request. Torvalds thinks GitHub is mostly "fine", "but merges is not one of those things". Read more...

Debian 11 "bullseye" stable release is finally out, brings exFAT support and more

Sayan Sen — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 08:16:01 +0000

The first stable version of Debian 11 (codenamed "bullseye") has been released earlier today by the Debian Project. It comes with a lot of new packages and features, like exFAT support, and more. Read more...

Microsoft is adding support for exFAT to the Linux kernel

Rich Woods — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:02:01 +0000

Today, Microsoft announced that it is releasing the technical specification for exFAT publicly available so that it can be supported by the Linux kernel. The file system is the successor to FAT32. Read more...

Microsoft's latest OneDrive update broke non-NTFS support on purpose

Rich Woods — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:50:01 +0000

After users began complaining that the latest OneDrive update doesn't work on non-NTFS file systems, Microsoft issued a statement today that said that this was indeed done deliberately. Read more...

Microsoft's patent train continues, BMW now paying royalties

Brad Sams — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:17:21 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it has signed a licensing agreement with BMW that will allow the German company to use Microsoft's exFAT technology in current and future products. Read more...

Microsoft signs up five companies to new exFAT license deals

John Callaham — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:01:18 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has signed up five companies to new license agreements so they can use Microsoft's Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) for flash-based memory products. Read more...

Microsoft announces exFAT licensing deal with Panasonic

Brad Sams — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:28:02 +0000

Microsoft said Thursday that it had signed a deal with Panasonic to license its Extended File Allocation Table (exFAT) for use in their products. exFAT is a relatively new file system that is best... Read more...

Microsoft licenses exFAT technology to LCD TV manufacturer

Kristan Kenney — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:40:05 +0000

Microsoft has announced a patent agreement with Funai Electric Co. Ltd., the manufacturer of LCD televisions sold under brand names such as Philips, Magnavox, Sylvania, and Emerson. In the agreement, Funai will gain access to Microsoft’s... Read more...