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True but NTFS is also far superior to HPFS, so arguably MSFT doesn't need a replacement for NTFS nearly as badly as Apple needs a replacement for HPFS.

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Minor nit, but HPFS was OS/2's filesystem. Apple's is HFS (and HFS+).

And NTFS was based on HPFS

Also, Microsoft has been developing ReFS as a replacement for NTFS.

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