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Next Windows to Have New Filesystem

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-play-nice-with-others dept.

ocipio writes: "Microsoft is currently planning a new filesystem. Its planned that the new filesystem will make searches easier, faster, and more reliable. Windows will also be less likely to break, and easier to fix when it does. The new technology will cause practically all Microsoft products to be rewritten to take advantage of it. Called Object File System, OFS will be found in the next major Windows release, codenamed Longhorn. More information can be found here at CNET."

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  1. In other news; by Sapphon · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    To rid itself completely of the much-maligned 'Blue Screen of Death', and to drastically increase loading and rebooting times, Microsoft has teamed up with known software developers Etch-A-Sketch, to create a lightweight, affordable PDA expected to quickly gain dominance amongst the user groups it's difficulty is catering to: toddlers and AOL users.

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  2. Cross platform compatibility by rossz · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    How much do you want to bet this breaks samba. How much do you want to bet that Microsoft won't release enough information for the samba team to quickly support the new file system. How much do you want to bet this has nothing to do with making a better file system and more to do with killing non-Microsoft servers. I would give any other company the benefit of the doubt. Microsoft's history, however, proves everything they do is to increase marketshare and nothing to do with making a better OS.

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  3. Re:Wow! This would mean by llamalicious · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Be optimistic. They aren't bugs. They're features.
    Designed to challenge the skills of IT departments everywhere.
    And put you in the looney bin.