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WinFS' Spot on Back Burner Nothing New
osViews.com writes "Charles Arthur of Independant.co.uk has an interesting editorial which analyzes Microsoft's recently postponed 'WinFS,' the file system that Microsoft had been planning to implement in Longhorn. His editorial reminds us that this technology, previously referred to as the 'NT Object Filing System' was intended for a previous version of one of Microsoft's operating system's code named 'Cairo.' Microsoft first spoke of the 'NT Object Filing System' in 1992 and scheduled a beta release in 1996 and then a full release in 1997. But limitations cause it to continue being delayed."
It reminds me of the old saying
duke nukem forever and winfs are fighting for the throne... of... stupid delays
http://ipod.fresh27.net/
..but isn't the main benefit easy searching?-) /badjoke
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Vaporware. Microsoft is so famous for it, they are referenced in the definition.
Is there any project for a similiar file system in linux?
The idea itself is a good one.
Not sure about COPELAND but I remember Copland
Remember it so well I even commented on it. Lame moderators only gave me a 3 though. Bastards.
Microsoft, I must applaud you. By delaying the best features of your operating system, and assuming you continue to do so in future versions of Windows, you wiil, one day, have the best OS to have never been developed.
So, in other words, would this mean that Microsoft has had this technology for at least 10+ years, yet are still working on it? Or perhaps it's because it may actually be useful that they've had to postpone it.
Wow. Someone has a unique sense of what trolling is...heh.
This is my sig. There are many like it but this one is mine.
I was just thinking that if they get this thing going, they'll be able to find the problem. Most likely in their own filesystem. Or maybe that's the problem. Just not the one they wanted to find.
"the original goal of the GNU project?"
Everyone knows that RMS wants Emacs to become self-aware.
Alan Perlis once said: "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing"
technophobic grandmas
Sounds like a good name for a band.
I've come for the woman, and your head.
How many people read "NT Object Filing System" as "NT Flying Object System"? C'mon now, be honest.
God I must have dyslexia.
Winter 2010: With Glowing Hearts
Dude... You messed up the TTR quote :)
:)
Chode: What the hell you been fixing these past few days?!?
Gus: The transdigital freon converter.
Chode: And what does that do?
Gus: It makes Ice Cubes.
Chode: Wuh... You mean to tell me, that with all the CRAP that's broken on this ship, you start with the fucking ICE MACHINE?
Gus: Now listen to ME, you fat purple dung pile... As the ship's engineer, I decide what gets fixed first. So if you don't like it, go screw yourself.
Chode: That does it! Come here... You've had this coming for along time [pulls out baseball bat] now I said get over here!
Gus: You wanna piece of me? [Middle finger becomes propane torch] Bring it ON!
Chode: [Smacks Gus with baseball bat]
Gus: Oh, this is fair... [Is beaten down by Chode]
[Sex android Six quietly enters bridge]
Chode: Oh, hello Six! [drops baseball bat]
Six: Captain, you know how fighting with Gus aggrivates your irritable bowel syndrome... Oooh, would ya like a handjob?
FWIW, download here. I love that short film... Especially Six >:P. The neat thing is they made a series of it on SciFi... Don't know when season 2's coming out though.
Go ahead... mod me OT. I still think it's hilarious
It is when you have to reboot them as often as Windows.
(bah-dum-dum)
Thank you, I'll be here all week...
Where is it... It's on my hard drive somewhere... I have no idea.
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
you != [funny | original]
(I'm pretty sure Webster's Dictionary's trademark has long since passed into a more nebulous place.)
It has. Why, just look it up at Webster's Dictionary!
yeah, but Tiger isn't the same. And the new BeOS opensource releases and commercial releases (zeta, yellowtab, etc) aren't the same. They don't have the same developer support that they used to (ie- metrowerks). It's just not the same. =P
Plus, where else do you have functions in the API like IsComputerOn() and IsComputerOnFire()?
...spike
Ewwwwww, coconut...