When software and operating system giant Microsoft announced its support for inclusion of the exFAT filesystem directly into the Linux kernel back in August, it didn't get a ton of press coverage. But ...

That's important because for those of you with long memories Microsoft used to make billions from Android and exFAT-related patent licenses. Those days are long over, and this buries them for good.

Copying from HFS+ to ExFat gives me a few thousand bytes less in the resulting file, although the files are all copied successfully as far as I can see. No hidden files are present in either the ...