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Microsoft's file system patent upheld (News.com)

Microsoft's file system patent upheld (News.com)

Posted Jan 13, 2006 9:34 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Microsoft's file system patent upheld (News.com) by beejaybee
Parent article: Microsoft's file system patent upheld (News.com)

But it's still possible to use 8.3 filenames on FAT32, right? Or do the patents cover both the long filename extensions and the larger filesystem extensions? It seems like the latter are completely obvious given the move from FAT12 to FAT16.


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