Microsoft made an official statement almost a year ago that it was OK to use exFAT, and they published the specs as well. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/open

Microsoft made an official statement almost a year ago that it was OK to use exFAT, and they published the specs as well. https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/ https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat... I won't argue how groundbreaking their technology is of late, but in all fairness they have been much more open with their code.