Microsoft Wants Linux to Use exFAT for the Same Reasons it Wants Everybody to Use OOXML | Linux Today

Microsoft Wants Linux to Use exFAT for the Same Reasons it Wants Everybody to Use OOXML

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Roy Schestowitz
Aug 30, 2019

Contrary to what Microsoft-dominated media is trying to tell us, Linux does not need exFAT and by adopting exFAT Linux would become more closely connected to and tightly controlled by Microsoft

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Roy Schestowitz

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