FAT32 is n’t widely used today. Yet SD cards, the last hold, have largely moved to exFAT. ( FAT32 has other limitations for the modern world, like a 4GB file size limit. ) Therefore, the intention seems to be more about making up than a Windows geek’s parallel of pardoning a historical figure who has been dying for a decade. The chances that many people will get a lot of visible benefit from the move are greatly diminished by the fact that the 32GB partition cap is also present in the Windows GUI partitioning tool.
In a 2021 video on his” Dave’s Garage” YouTube channel, retired Microsoft system expert Dave Plummer explained why he chose the 32GB split cover. In the middle of the 1990s, he predicted that the limit may have a very short duration and boost with the upcoming revision. He said,” I chose 32GB as my control, and I just had my day.” ” Until SD cards reached the magic 32GB size many years later, I did n’t start to regret that choice.”
Phillips then moved on to refute the story that Microsoft had a 32GB cover to encourage the use of the NTFS format. He explained that Microsoft had previously promoted NTFS or earned a dime from licensing it, and that it was already widely used. Instead, he says FAT32’s synthetic cap was more about preventing wasted room (especially with little records ) than deploying any sinister business strategies.
If you really want to boy out on’ 90s drive formats, Plummer’s three-year-old picture goes into more details about his random selection that — unknown to him at the time — would last nearly 30 years.
