Are these the long list of patents they kept trying to claim they had over linux for years, but were mostly found to be trivial or BS when China made them actually show the patents?
Work around is use an android phone as a bridge. It can read the exfat because they paid the license, Linux can read the phone. Use one to pass through to the other. Not great but it works.
Edit: I am fairly jaded about headlines like this. That is an attention grabbing headline but when you can patent the door to a shop patents start to mean nearly nothing.
So how may of these are actually useable and how many are, well we patented this years ago so non one else could do the super basic, should be in everything, function.
This sounds like a good deed on Microsofts part. Seems like they want to be a good Samaritan to development in general. No doubt any move theymake is to benefit their product either directly or indirectly. But that doesn’t mean they will always follow previous mottos.
I’ll give them a gold star here.
Now just fix the EULA and give control back to the user and maybe I’ll use windows again.
Not when every DSLR, camcorder, and image/video device uses exFAT with SDXC cause the SD card association decided to use a patent encumbered filesystem IN THE STANDARD.