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WinFS Gets the Axe

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the shell-games dept.

commander salamander writes "Over at the WinFS Team Blog, Quentin Clark states that Microsoft no longer plans to ship WinFS as a standalone software component. Instead, portions of the underlying technology will be included with the next release of SQL Server (codename Katmai) and ADO.NET. Does this spell the end for the true relational storage paradigm that Microsoft has been promising since Windows 95?"

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  1. just another... by na641 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ...ms is always 'horrible' thread. Ok, so they're not going to ship winFS. Yeah it sucks, but at the same time if MS had shipped it, and it wasn't up to the quality standard they promised it would be, they'd be getting even more shit. Seems to me like MS just couldn't make WinFS as efficient and nice as they had promised so they just scratched it. Nothing wrong with that in my book... but of course this is slashdot, so, i'll just follow the crowd and say MS was fucked up for doing this, i just cant fathom how it could happen, and yada yada yada.

    1. Re:just another... by pallmall1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Oh, this one is a real gem. A true diamond from a chirping Microsoft canary:

      ...if MS had shipped it, and it wasn't up to the quality standard they promised it would be...

      It would be... just like every other Microsoft product!
      ROTFLMAO! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

      --
      3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
  2. Re:an amazing promise by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Nice grammar, dipshit. Perhaps if you weren't sucking on Linux exhaust you'd learn how to use the goddamn English language.

    For fuck's sake, how do you expect people to take your arguments seriously if you can't even construct a coherent sentence?