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File systems under Microsoft Windows:
Microsoft Windows make use of the File Allocation Table and NTFS file systems. Older versions of the FAT file system had file name length limits, plus had restrictions on the maximum size of FAT-formatted disks or partitions.
NTFS, introduced with the Windows NT operating system, allowed ACL-based permission control. Hard links, multiple file streams, attribute indexing, quota tracking, compression and mount-points for other file systems are also supported, though not all well-documented.
Since Windows interacts with the user via a graphical user interface, its documentation refers to directories as a folder which contains files, and is represented graphically with a folder icon.
