WinFS to be available in WinXP

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 7, 2005 @05:20AM 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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Hold it by varmittang · 2005-03-07 05:26 · Score: 0, Redundant

So is Longhorn dead, or just going to become another pointless upgrade if MS keeps back porting everything to XP.

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Check out by Run4yourlives · 2005-03-07 05:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

OSX's Spotlight functionality... I think you can find a demo on their site.

I'm not defending WinFS, but the "search engine in OS" idea is pretty powerful if done right.