The problem with removable drives is that no one came up with a better filesystem than FAT32 that could be implemented easily by everyone. All the *NIX filesyst

The problem with removable drives is that no one came up with a better filesystem than FAT32 that could be implemented easily by everyone. All the *NIX filesystems embedded permissions that were useless on non-POSIX systems and caused issues on POSIX ones when you actually moved a drive from one computer to another. So MS extended FAT again and kept it under its IP hat, as was their wont[0] at the time. [0] Non-native english speakers may be confused by this: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20is%20someone%27s%20wont https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20is%20someone...