Tuxera, the Finnish company behind open-source file system NTFS-3G, has announced a confidential intellectual-property deal with Microsoft, under which it will be permitted to carry on distributing its open-source NTFS product and to offer new exFAT drivers.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft ... -over-ntfs
Basically Microsoft does not care.
They seem to understand that some things in computers just need to be for anyone to use.
Puppy still needs the ntfs-3g.