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Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the rapid-turnaround-times dept.

skillio writes "Everyone's favorite OS maven, Bill Gates, announced a release date for Longhorn on Friday. He confirms what many had suspected - Microsoft will attempt to complete this release in calendar year 2006. The most notable element of this announcement was Gates' admission that WinFS, Microsoft's next-generation file system, would not be complete in time for this release - surprising, since this was the most hyped component of the next iteration of Windows."

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  1. Re:As much as I don't like Microsoft... by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 0, Redundant

    umm, hey stupid, WinFS is a layer on top of NTFS. Longhorn would have still has a heirarchical file system

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