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Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has set late 2006 as the deadline for shipping Longhorn, but to make that date, it had to delay the full implementation of WinFS, an ambitious file system geared at letting users search through all of their files at once. In this interview with Bill Gates, he provides a summary of why Microsoft decided to drop WinFS, saying: "WinFS, I'd be the first to say, is very ambitious. Nobody has ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find, move around and replicate those things." Meanwhile, MS Watch has published Longhorn head-honcho Jim Allchin's memo on why some Longhorn features had to be axed."
Methinks you misspelt 'Babblefish'. :-)
More than mere navel gazing.
"one simple set of verbs that lets you richly find,"
WTF? Does he not speak English?
Yes, before anyone says anything, I know what a DDE verb is. And I am familiar with the jargon meaning of "rich" which is being used in this unusually placed adverb. But I don't think most of MS's customers do.
Precisely, something like...
find / -type f | xargs grep -il $string
Yeah, Microsoft said/did/did not do something. Let's all waste our time complaining about it and giving the world our theories about how Microsoft yet again shot themselves in the foot.
Imagine the force this community would be if it redirected its energy to something productive. We know so much, so why not build like mad and give MS some real competition.
The bit is mightier than the bitch.