Tuxera signs up with Microsoft

Press release
August 26, 2009

Tuxera, the NTFS-3G File System Provider, Signs Intellectual Property 
Agreement with Microsoft
Announces Tuxera exFAT for Embedded Systems

HELSINKI, FINLAND: Today Tuxera Ltd, the company founded by the leading 
open source NTFS project NTFS-3G, announced extensive cooperation with 
Microsoft. As part of this cooperation, Tuxera has signed an 
Intellectual Property Agreement, and has joined Microsoft's exFAT 
Program, which will enable the launch of a new exFAT driver. In 
addition, Tuxera has joined Microsoft's Interop Vendor Alliance, a 
community of software and hardware vendors working together to enhance 
interoperability with Microsoft systems.

With the agreements, Tuxera becomes the first independent software 
vendor to offer exFAT drivers. Microsoft supports exFAT as the first 
choice for many file system interoperability needs, including flash 
memory in consumer devices. Further, the SD Card Association has chosen 
exFAT as the standard file system for their SDXC cards. Tuxera has now 
access to the exFAT specifications, Microsoft's source code 
implementation of exFAT, and testing and verification tools. Tuxera exAT 
for Embedded Sytems will be first available for Linux.

"We are looking forward to working with an increasing number of OEM 
customers. Adding exFAT into our existing NTFS product portfolio is the 
logical step to help our customers solve any interoperable file system 
need they have," comments Szabolcs Szakacsits, Tuxera CTO and the 
founder of NTFS-3G.

"As an open source company, we feel excited to sign an intellectual 
property agreement with Microsoft. They are a great partner, and I am 
confident that our agreements, and this collaboration, will ensure a 
bright future for file system interoperability and data portability that 
benefits device manufacturers and consumers alike," says Mikko Välimäki, 
Tuxera CEO.

For further information:

Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com

Szabolcs Szakacsits, President and CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com

About Tuxera: Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system drivers that 
guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the 
success of open source, Tuxera's industry-standard NTFS-3G driver has 
over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement 
reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. 
Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on 
extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property 
and alliance agreements. Tuxera's customers include leading software, 
semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design 
the future of file system interoperability. See more from 
http://www.tuxera.com/

About exFAT: Extended file allocation table (exFAT) is a new file system 
that is a scalable solution to the growing needs of mobile personal 
storages. See more from: 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa914353.aspx

About Interop Vendor Alliance: The Interop Vendor Alliance is a 
community of software and hardware vendors working together to enhance 
interoperability with Microsoft systems. See more from: 
http://interopvendoralliance.com/

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