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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft Software => Topic started by: Jack2000 on 27 September 2005, 23:52

Title: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Jack2000 on 27 September 2005, 23:52

MS and "Fat" license http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/ip/tech/fat.asp


:eek::mad::mad::eek::nothappy::thumbdwn::thumbdwn::thumbdwn:

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: noob on 28 September 2005, 00:15

BOLLOCKS, IBM created FAT and M$ used it for MS DOS.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 28 September 2005, 00:18

Damn I can't find the thread but hasn't this been posted before?

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Jack2000 on 28 September 2005, 00:21

Thats the evill ness ness ness !!!!!!!
8)

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: skyman8081 on 28 September 2005, 02:05

what.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: WMD on 28 September 2005, 02:17

Quote

The first FAT file system was developed by Microsoft in 1976.

Even if MS did create it, it certainly wasn't this early.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: noob on 28 September 2005, 21:12

we have been doing this at college, ill get the slideshow with all the details on it.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 28 September 2005, 22:01

I'm not even sure it was MS who created FAT, I have a feeling it was part of QDOS.

Edit:
I think this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table) clears up a lot of things - it's a very interesting read.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Kintaro on 29 September 2005, 06:44

Idiot.

Seattle Computer Products made FAT12, and MS made FAT16 based off that.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Orethrius on 29 September 2005, 08:12

Quote from: kintaro

Idiot.

Seattle Computer Products made FAT12, and MS made FAT16 based off that.

 Okay, that first bit was uncalled for.  Now, continuing on, I don't see that Microsoft made that differentiation ANYWHERE on that site.  Rather revisionist, wouldn't you say? *poke poke*

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Kintaro on 29 September 2005, 08:22

Who cares? They brought the rights to FAT12 long ago with QDOS. It's theres.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Orethrius on 29 September 2005, 09:31

Ah, but innovation through purchases is nay but business sense.  It is not, in and of itself, innovation.  ;)

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: themacuser on 29 September 2005, 12:45

Heh, that's evil.
/me goes and formats all his memory cards as ext2 and hfs...

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Orethrius on 30 September 2005, 05:00

Quote from: themacuser

Heh, that's evil.
/me goes and formats all his memory cards as ext2 and hfs...

You mean people still use FAT?  :eek:

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Pathos on 30 September 2005, 05:49

I do for swapping files between XP and Lin.

waste of time tho since Linux can access NTFS now.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: noob on 30 September 2005, 09:16

i still use fat. ive had bad experiances with ntfs. fat is more compatible with different devices and OS's.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Jack2000 on 30 September 2005, 23:32

Fat32 ROCKZ!

:) just kidding i like fat32 more than ntfs so i have 3 partitions as fat32 1 linux
and 1 ntfs :))

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: WMD on 1 October 2005, 01:42

Quote from: Orethrius

You mean people still use FAT?  :eek:

It's still the best for removable media, because it has robust, out-of-the-box support in all OSs.  No other FS has that.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Kintaro on 2 October 2005, 19:29

IBM JFS kicks your arse.

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: themacuser on 6 October 2005, 12:39

Their patent got denied again just a few days ago iirc

Title: Re: Ms's evil know no bounds!
Post by: Kintaro on 9 October 2005, 14:06

Quote from: Orethrius

Ah, but innovation through purchases is nay but business sense.  It is not, in and of itself, innovation.  ;)

And Microsoft is a business, the only sense they will ever make is business sense.

Welcome to life.