Why NFS and CIFS

In NAS ( network attached storage), we use CIFS and NFS as the file systems. Why don't we use the common file systems like FAT and NTFS in windows and EXT2, EXT3 in linux. CIFS is used as the file sytem in Windows and NFS for the file system in linux. so Why so??

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