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Cameras. High capacity removable flash media used by digital still and video cameras is often formatted as exFAT. Despite MS' licensing, FAT/FAT32/exFAT are es

• ysleepy 7y ago
  The SDXC standard (SD cards > 32GiB) specifies exFAT as the standardised Filesystem.
• dylan-m 7y ago
  This was also a huge problem for Android. At some point Android started using MTP instead of appearing as a mass storage device, which made for several technical wins. Most importantly, internal memory could be one contiguous block formatted as ext3. But this happened well before MTP was properly supported in Windows, which predictably made things difficult for a lot of users. (This was back when Android had competition, so that was important). If I was a betting type, I'd wager that Microsoft's FAT patents (and various legal settlements where they got to say "Linux infringes on hundreds of patents" without ever needing to specify the patents) had a lot to do with that change, since, with the exception of a few manufacturers who continued to ship devices with external SD slots, and USB-OTG which is kind of a bonus feature, Android finally didn't need FAT for interoperability.
• AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  That's because no one has bothered to make a better FS for that sort of thing. Open FS's all insist on having UNIX's archaic permission system, which is useless at best and at worst actually harmful to moving files between systems, and they aren't as absurdly simple as FAT.