Microsoft is not a company that has us used to making many changes in Windows, its operating system for computers and a good proof of this is that, recently, the Redmond company confirmed that, in the next version of Windows 11, it was going to eliminate two applications as mythical as they are obsolete: Cortana and WordPad.
But that won’t be the only novelty of the next Windows 11 update, because Microsoft has just revealed that Windows 11 24H2 will also end one of the most absurd limitations of Windows 30 years later.
Finally, Microsoft Will Remove the 32GB Limit on FAT32 Partitions
In a recent post on its official blog in which Microsoft announces Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686, the latest test version of its desktop operating system, the American company also confirms that it is going to end, after 30 years, with the 32 GB limitation for FAT32 partitions in Windows.
Thus, Microsoft has revealed that it is going to extend the limit of FAT32 partitions in Windows from the 32 GB in force until now to 2 TB, a figure much more in line with the times.
“When formatting disks from the command line using the format command, we have increased the FAT32 size limit from 32 GB to 2 TB.”
Likewise, the American giant has explained that, for the moment, this limitation only ceases to be in force if we perform the formatting in FAT32 from the command line, since if we do it from the formatting option dialog box, the previous limit of 32 GB is still maintained.
Former Windows developer Dave Plummer originally set the 32GB limit for FAT32 partitions during the development of Windows 95 nearly three decades ago, and we think it’s good news that Microsoft has decided to end this archaic and arbitrary limitation once and for all.
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