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WinFS to be available in WinXP
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."
I thought the Bill-Gates-as-borg icon had a slightly wider smile today ...
WinFS announcements are one of Microsoft's most popular products. Thanks for the upgrade!
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make install -not war
And now what reason do I have to upgrade to longhorn?
Oh Wait
1. Slower Performance. Why would I acctually want free system resources?
2. DRM, Who doesn't want their rights managed by M$
3. Spending More Money. Who doesn't want to give their money to M$, really?
Frankie Avalon and The Indigo Girls?
It will be probably XP SP6 by the time it is released.
My google partition works well.
It stores meta data along with all your files, so ... you have to spend more money on a bigger hard drive! Yay!
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
We had Internet, 32-bit color, and multitasking in Windows 3.1, but no one seemed to complain about the jump to Windows 95 (especially because they didn't have to tinker with CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT to get games working.) Similarly, while new advanced technologies may be available in XP for developers and power users to preview or even use it is no substitute for the successful integration and exploitation of these features at all levels of the operating system.
Try not. Do or do not, there is no try.
-- Dr. Spock, stardate 2822-3.
I think that the most important Question here is ... is microsoft going to provide an specification for the fs?, and, in case they do, will it be licensed in a GPL-compatible way?
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
After seeing how completely incompetent and pants-wetting funny awful Microsoft is at file searching with the little doggie, I can't wait to experience having a few more unnecessary, superfluous, extravagant, and bloated layers HELPING me.
I think you misspelled "monopoly"
You'll find out in 2010.
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I like Windows XP Home Edition.
It is the most powerful operating-system for Pee Cees. It looks not as gay as Mac OS X by Steve B10 Jobs and has 1,0000,0000 times more softwares that the Linus-operating-system.
Plus, it comes with every Pee Cee for free. People who have grown acusstomt to paying RatHat 699 $$$ or more can hardly beleive this when I consult them with my proffesional Internet- and Network-Service-Center-Bureau.
Wehn I have a new customer, I take him to the back-room to show him the "alternative" to XP Home, which is Suse Linux 9.0.
I have set-up an old Pentium 133Hz and a small monochrome monitor to show teh customer what Linux looks and feels like.
I have it set-up so it runs a fullscreen-Flash-splash-screen on the KDE3.3beta-desktop. It takes 13 min until the mouse cursor responds.
The customer will them make a sound like: "BAH!"
Then I tell them: "See, this is how it is if we let the communists make software."
Then we have a good laugh, wich is psycologicallish valuable for the customer-relatively.
I always tell them:
"Windows XP Home Edition is all you can do to embiggen the producationality of your human resourcers and empower to leverage the outcome-bottomlime of your stickholder
My customers usually are like: "OMG!"
You should really try it one day; it has a very nice light-reddish color theme to hit your tastes.
Thank you!
As a developer, WinFS's usefulness is obvious: storing desktop application settings, configuration, temporary files, even serialized runtime objects, is a royal pain when having to worry about actual files on disk. You have to worry about asynchronous file I/O, duplicate files, making sure directories exist, making sure you clean up your temporary files, making sure the user or some other program hasn't royally screwed you configuration files, just to name a few. With a database-backed file system, the developer only has to deal with data, not the underlying file system.
Huh?
Desktop application settings, configuration => the registry
Temporary files => GetTempFileName(), CreateFile() FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE
Worry about asynchronous file I/O => mutexes, file locking (how'd WinFS help this?)
Duplicate files - ?
Making sure directories exist => CreateDirectoryEx()
Making sure you clean up your temporary files => FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE
Making sure the user of some other program hasn't royally screwed your configuration files => how'd WinFS help with this? Can't they overwrite the config files if you store them there, too?
It won't be susceptible to the LAND attack, perhaps?
"So not only is it a file system, it is also a search engine."
Man: WinFS is a desert topping.
Woman: No, it's a floor wax.
Man: Desert topping!
Woman: Floor wax!
Announcer: You are both right...WinFS is both a desert topping *and* a floor wax.
Now with 20% MORE Clippy!
Me too. I feel it is important for my children to figure out how to circumvent protection measures like this, thus adding a little extra education to their computing experience.
Kind of like: "Of course you can play Mickey Mouse Toddler, as soon as you crack the password-based encryption I put on the executable. And what do I keep telling you about leaving your Legos on the floor?"
Just curious...
What color will "long horn" "dye"? Purple? Green?
Since obviously you have all the answers, I figured you'd know better than anyone.
User: "Where is my Word Document?"
Hopefully, it's in his $HOME directory and not lurking about the entire filesystem like my word documents...
Coderz 4 Life
The name?
Hmmmmmm..... Deep fried and look like Squirrel.
What's going to be new in Longhorn?
Stuff that will be old in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.
I believe that's his point -- to get you freaks to crawl out of your android dungeons.
Now, be fair... you can't really blame WinFS for that