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Originally Posted by jbjb
If you use compatibility with a proprietary Microsoft file system as your measure of playing well with other OSes, it's unsurprising that Microsoft's own OSes come out well, but I wouldn't say that's a particularly fair test.
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I did acknowledge the unfairness of the test in principle, but that in practice it's a fair test. Windows is the massively dominant force in personal computing. Apple has to deal with MS, not the other way, round purely because of the numbers.
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Originally Posted by jbjb
In any case, NTFS drives on a Windows PC can be quite happily mounted on a Mac as SMB/CIFS network shares etc. which (at least in my experience) is a far more common way of sharing files between PCs and Macs.
/JB
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I was transferring files via a USB stick. I think that's a more common method than mounting drives.