Given Cutler hated UN*X, that only makes sense. NT did a lot of things right at the kernel level.
> and most of them are unused or effectively only used by malware (e.g. alternate file streams).
"Most of them unused"?
ADS was added to NTFS to support Mac OS file sharing over AFP ("Services for Macintosh"). Microsoft makes use of it for downloads from Edge, among other things. It's otherwise not a supremely useful feature and one that you'll silently lose data when moving to another fs/www further degrading it's usefulness.
Given Cutler hated UN*X, that only makes sense. NT did a lot of things right at the kernel level.
> and most of them are unused or effectively only used by malware (e.g. alternate file streams).
"Most of them unused"?
ADS was added to NTFS to support Mac OS file sharing over AFP ("Services for Macintosh"). Microsoft makes use of it for downloads from Edge, among other things. It's otherwise not a supremely useful feature and one that you'll silently lose data when moving to another fs/www further degrading it's usefulness.