Microsoft is not a company accustomed to making many changes to Windows, its operating system for computers, and a good proof of this is that the company recently confirmed that in the next version of Windows 11 it will eliminate two legendary applications as much as they are obsolete: Cortana and WordPad.
But that won't be the only new thing in the next Windows 11 update, because Microsoft just revealed that Windows 11 24H2 will also end one of Windows' most ridiculous restrictions after 30 years.
In a recent blog post announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686, the latest beta release of its desktop operating system, Microsoft also confirms that it will end, after 30 years, the 32GB limit for FAT32 partitions in Windows.
Thus, Microsoft revealed that it will expand the maximum size of FAT32 partitions in Windows from the current 32GB to 2TB, a number that is much more in line with the current era.
"When formatting disks from the command line using the format command, we increased the maximum FAT32 size from 32 GB to 2 TB."
Likewise, the American giant explained that at the moment, this limitation no longer applies unless we format in FAT32 from the command line, because if we do it from the format option dialog, the format will still retain the previous limit of 32 GB.
Former Microsoft developer Dave Plummer originally set the 32GB limit for FAT32 partitions while developing Windows 95 nearly three decades ago, and we think it's good news that Microsoft has decided to get rid of this old and arbitrary limit once and for all.