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WinFS - Who Will Actually Use It?
Hel Toupee asks: "Tom's Hardware is running an article about the file system to be employed in Windows Longhorn, the to-be-long-overdue successor to Windows XP. According to the information that the authors could get out of Microsoft, WinFS seems to be little more than an indexing and searching service that sits on top of NTFS or FAT. It is also very flexible and extendable, which, for Microsoft, can mean 'slow' and 'exploitable'. For instance: quite a bit of the inner workings of WinFS rely on XML data tags which can allow 'for instance, that developers will additionally be able to automatically display or execute commands linked to items located by a specific search'. This seems to imply that the new generation of spyware only has to change a bit of XML and it can add entries to your context menus, or open webpages when you click on a file, or, since files can be grouped by content in 'virtual folders', spyware could effectively add entries to these folders, or reorganize your entire filesystem on the fly -- all with slight tweak in some XML file! Am I being paranoid? WinFS seems fairly insecure, and I will not be using it if given a choice. What's your take?"
"What's your take?"
It's too fscking early to say.
Stop talking out your ass and speculate on something important, like Episode III.
Joe
http://www.joegrossberg.com
Sorry, but... in this case, choice is an illusion.
First it will be the default... then it will be the only choice.
This is, of course, the optimist in me... the pessimist says that you will be lucky if this is as bad as it gets.
It could very well be a "transitional" file system. The final file system will actually live on your bank's system... making the movement of money from your account to their's all the more seamless.
The end goal is to create one massive grid computing system that constantly funnels money from the banks of the world into MS's coffers.
--Phillip
Can you say BIRTH TAX