Microsoft abandons the FAT file system in favor exFAT

After 35 years of loyal service, Microsoft has decided to retire the obsolete FAT file system, created for the first Operating Systems DOS and obviously used on early versions of Windows up to Millennium. FAT format is an 8-bit storage that had as many will know the limit to store files up to 4 GB and that quite some time showed its limits in the management of archives and large libraries.

The FAT file system will be replaced by younger exFAT , born in 2006 and free of the above problems, the only flaw is that Open Source Operating Systems such as Linux will not have compatibility with devices that will use it. Microsoft, however, seems to be willing to disclose exFAT, which is why today announced agreements with Sharp, Sigma, NextoDi, Black Magic and Atmos, manufacturers that will use the next-generation devices.