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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."
You know what to do, click "edit this page" and vandalize the shit out of it!
As is radical America hater Michael Moore. The asshole is so obsessed with his own importance, he can't keep his facts straight. I went into F911 unsure about Bush but came out 100% in favor of re-electing him.
And this has what to do with the price of motherboards in China?!
Hey, what's that under that bridge over there?
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Oh, no! Has Slashdot sunk to having sweepstakes in the headlines?
Hmm, maybe I am missing something</luser>
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
if I had any modpoints left I'd mod this Insightful
605413? Yes, it's a prime.
I think the problem for most of the rest of us is that fucking other countries is what the US does best ...
What a long, strange trip it's been.
Congratulations, your outdated practices are directly responsible for the amount of viruses spewing crap traffic all over the internet today.
If it wasn't for dinosaurs such as yourself writing software that craps all over the NT directory heirarchy, nobody would have to run with permanent administrator priviledges, allowing malicious software to run amok all over the system all for the sake of just word processing letters and listening to mp3s.
People could, instead, use restricted user accounts as was intended, have their own personal file stores and maybe perhaps have software that automatically loads up the relvent folder when you hit 'open,' to save you wandering all over the fs to get to where you keep your filesOH WAIT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS.
Well done there, re-inventing the wheel and not even ending up with something remotely circular.