CNet on WinFS

Posted by michael on Friday October 17, 2003 @03:12AM from the ronco-vegematic dept.

Weston writes "CNet has posted an article about WinFS, or more specifically, what Bob Muglia (a VP at Microsoft) said about it in a recent interview. According to Muglia, the new filesystem will not replace NTFS, but will incorporate feratures of NTFS, SQL, and XML all into a filesystem which, accoring to Microsoft, will open up a whole new world of information availability. He goes on to describe such a filesystem as the 'holy grail' that is sought by developers. WinFS is slated for release in 2005/06 as part of the Longhorn OS."

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Re:Corrupt filesystems faster, by Interruach · 2003-10-17 03:18 · Score: 0, Troll

On the contrary my good man. It would seem the idea is to have the filesystem *so slow* that corrupting it would take a good afternoon to do, thus allowing someone the chance to realise what is happening and reboot their server / pc. Actually, it's probably just another way to enforce DRM at a low level. Everything Microsoft Does can be interpreted as a sneaky new way to enforce DRM.