exfat licensing

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The exfat licensing tag covers Microsoft's licensing program for its exFAT file system, an extended version of FAT designed for flash storage. exFAT reduces overhead compared to NTFS and removes the 4GB file size limit of FAT32. Microsoft has announced licensing agreements with companies like Sony, Canon, Sanyo, and SanDisk. The format is included in Windows CE and Windows client operating systems. Discussions on this tag focus on the availability and terms of exFAT licensing for device manufacturers and software developers.

  1. Microsoft reannounces its exFAT file format is available for licensing

    Link Removed Microsoft has been licensing its exFAT flash file format for licensing for a while now. In case you forgot, Link Removed due to 404 Error. Link Removed, or EXtended File Allocation Table, is an enhanced version of the FAT file system from Microsoft that uses less overhead than the...
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