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WinFS to be available in WinXP

Posted by Hemos on from the by-bits-and-dribbles dept.

ScooterMcGoo writes "According to a Microsoft Watch blog, WinFS is being back ported for Windows XP. From TFA: WinFS isn't dead, Tom Rizzo, Microsoft's director of product management for SQL Server, recently told Microsoft Watch. In fact, Microsoft is planning to provide an update on the technology at this year's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in September, he said. Rizzo said that Microsoft is busily back-porting the WinFS file-system technology to Windows XP. It's unclear if Microsoft also is porting WinFS to Windows Server 2003, but such a move would be likely, given that the Redmond software vendor is doing so with Avalon and Indigo."

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  1. MS FindFast + NTFS ~= WINFS? by flumps · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Sooo.. this is a FS with "MS Office FindFast" built in -- grreat. More slowness.

    Would there be any way to turn the damn thing off?

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  2. Re:And I care why? by fox8118 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It stores meta data along with all your files, so ... you have to spend more money on a bigger hard drive! Yay!


    Isn't Microsoft just trying to make it easier for hackers and viri to find your financial information and other files with interesting words in them?

  3. backporting? by CAIMLAS · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Backporting it from what, might I ask?

    It's been phantom, "in development" software for years. Who wants to bet that Longhorn was never really going to exist in the first place, but was simply an experimental platform which they were using to slow down the migration to other platforms?

    I can't see the appeal in this, at all. It'll be slow and fairly useless, IMO. I also suspect they'll charge for it.

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