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WinFS Beta 1 Released Early
Mouldy Punk writes "Infoworld is reporting that WinFS Beta 1 has been released. The new relational file system for Windows is posted on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. This release is designed to offer developers a preview of WinFS capabilities. WinFS will be in beta when Windows Vista ships and will RTM afterwords. WinFS, when it ships, will be available for download for Windows Vista and possible support for Windows XP is being considered. The distribution mechanism for WinFS will be through an add-on download much like the .NET framework is today. Tom Rizzo also notes that there is a new blog dedicated to Win FS."
What should Hans has to say on this fs.
MS just found the backup disk.
I wonder if there is a possibility of MS releasing the NTFS specs for the FOSS community once WinFS becomes widely used? That would be great, but seems unlikely.
> and whose mistake was propagated to Windows 98, 98SE, ME, NT, 2K, XP, and 2K3, effectively making it impossible for nontechnical users to ever learn where their files were located...
The root of the problem is that most people do not care where their files are located. They just want it to work.
By the way, I think something is wrong with your keyboard.
When buying a Vista license, you'll be paying for XP a second time ... but you're really saving in the TCO.
Yeah, I should use a Microsoft beta file system, because my files and documents aren't in enough danger as it is....
...aaaand I just bluescreened my brain.
Seriously, is there an upside to this system to the casual-to-serious user? Or is it mostly a DRM-delivery platform? I read TFAs, but this sentence hurt me: "(Integrated data initiative is a term used to refer to a group of technologies whose goal is to provide better integration for data..."
You mean the ^H's? He's probably using Lunix. It's 2005 and they still can't get the freaking backspace key to work.
If this is an add-on which interfaces to the kernel through an API it should be possible to get it to run under Wine, right? I'm fairly ignorant about how Wine works, so I'm wondering. That would be cool to have WinFS running on Linux.
You are (deliberately?) misunderstanding what WinFS is designed to accomplish.
Locking out Linux/Samba clients and servers?
2) Release an add-on with "BETA" in the title
Works for Google.
The bu^H^Hfeature is that you no longer get^H^H^Hneed to know where your files are.
One of these days they're going to invent an operating system that recognises the Backspace button. The possibilities will be endless! They might even have cars that run on electricity in that future age.
I'm actually looking forward to using it in a manner that will help me organize my photos. Directory structures + filenames don't cut it, especially when you've got attributes like "christmas vacation, florida, camille, beach, lighthouse, 16:9 crop" that you want to associate with one file.
Of course, as you note, the system is useless if you have poor metadata associated with the files. But with good metadata, the flexability/power available to organize and find the information you are looking for is increased by an order of magnitude via dynamic folder creation.
I totally agree. I mean... when I search for "Porn" on my drive, it would be as though I did a search for *.*
Life is not for the lazy.
...A microsoft supported file sharing program! wait... what does the FS stand for again?
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