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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."
Why is this so important?
Longhorn is dead, long live longhorn.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Microsoft needs to keep everything locked up. NTFS was good enough for a while but now the linux driver is maturing to the point where it is no longer a weapon. Remember, with Microsoft, everything is security through obscurity. And that goes for their financial security as well.
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Actually, it was a rhetoric question, if you just point out that it's just another propietary format created by microsoft in order to make other operating systems incompatible, and so: a) force upgrades, b) spread FUD about Free Software interoperability, i would just be moded as flamebait, and noone would take my point.
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Insted, with such a question, you make other poeple think, letting them take their own conclussion.
You can catch more flys with sugar
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
Otherwise they'd be suing you for your sources. Not trying to troll, just pointing out how people talk about Microsoft rumours all time without worry about getting sued.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Microsoft doesn't offer "new features", that's not their business, and never had been.
They instead offer features that are new in windows, and market them as "new technologys".
They don't care if those features has been in Unix or Mac OS for years.
Regardless of how stupid this sounds, it has worked for them for the past 2 decades.
WTF am I doing replying to an AC at 5 A.M on a Friday night?
why - micrososft has a nice little investment in apple - they don't care about them - they will make money if they succeed.
Lets see M$ wanted a new OS based on 4 key pillars. They are down to one - security and reliability. I think the past record of MS will indicate how well the implment the security and reliability of Longhorn.
I would expect that SP1 or SP2 will be the version of Longhorn that will really start to use the four main pillars it was to be based upon. But by releaseing a sub-standard version off the start they will hurt their market share even more.
MS is in a position that it could hold off release for a year and make things right. The bad PR from introducting an marginal OS will hurt them. It would be best if they waited and released something that was actually ground breaking. I guess they had two choices - early release so that Linux or some other OS does not gain too much Market share or release late and try to regain the market share. I would tend to think they would get more market share if they actually released something that worked correctly the first time rahter than saying.... aaaaahhhh just wait for the patch.
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So is MS going to push everyone to Thunderbird?
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