FAT is Fattening: Some of Microsoft's technical decisions in Windows originated from arbitrary or outdated constraints, many of which could now be removed with relative ease. Case in point: the FAT32 ...

Microsoft is finally fixing Windows' slow storage management issues and lifting its longstanding limit on FAT32. For three decades, Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum size of 32GB, even ...

It seems Microsoft is hard at work implementing its Windows 11 improvement plan that was announced last month. Recently, they have reduced Copilot integration in certain native apps, such as Notepad, ...

Microsoft is making a long-overdue adjustment to one of Windows’ oldest storage limitations, removing the 32GB formatting cap for FAT32 in recent Windows 11 Insider Preview builds. The change, ...

Finally, the stock Windows tools will let you format a FAT32 drive up to 2 TB instead of locking you to a 32 GB maximum! The size limit was never baked into the FAT32 spec itself. With a 32-bit field ...

5 MacOS command line tools I swear by over their GUI counterparts ...

In Microsoft's latest plan to clean up and optimize Windows 11 and make it the premiere gaming platform, even minor system functionality is getting a second look. For the latest Insider Preview build, ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

Exposure therapy to the bash shell brought me to the tipping point, and I jumped ship to the Macintosh side of the house. It ...

Need tabloid-size output in the office, or truly big photo prints at home? These top-rated wide-format printers handily produce documents and photos on paper that's 11 by 17 inches or larger—in some ...

The biggest cycling tech story of 2026 is not a new electronic drivetrain, lighter carbon frames, or another tweak to geometry. It’s a wheel—specifically, a much bigger one. After years of quiet ...

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