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WinFS Gets the Axe
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?"
Maybe it was supposed to be "WhenFS?" (FP?)
How long has the promise of WinFS been on the table?
I don't know, but if this has been circulating at least since NT4 days and Duke Nukem Forever comes out first - which might actually freaking happen, that tells you something.
And I don't think that something has anything to do with MS being an agile.
See.. DNF Is based on WINFS.. too bad for the delay..
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them.
Windows Vista has now been renamed Windows XP Service Pack 3. More at 11!
Duke Nukem WinFS Edititon
No problem, you can still have a content indexed file system in vista. Just use spotlight. Here I'm naturally assuming everyone will own a macbook and be running Vista in a VM (in Lion or Parallels). In that case then as long as the disks are shared you can just content index the windows files in Mac OS.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Well, the BeBox had what, 2-66 MHz processors and 64MB of RAM? That's a fraction of a Vista compatible video card...
This guy's the limit!
Does this spell the end for the true relational storage paradigm that Microsoft has been promising since Windows 95?"
Absolutely not! Apple will someday invent it and Microsft will copy it.
You don't have to be smart to use a Mac, you just have to be smart enough to buy one
I thought "WinFS" meant "Windows File System", but I just checked Wikipedia and it actually means "Windows Future Storage". Well, if it is ever released, it is no longer in the future, right? It's like "Duke Nukem Forever": if it ever gets released, you're no longer waiting forever...
Circumcision is child abuse.
It's in CVS.
"I bet Visa idles more RAM and CPU resources than an BeBox had to begin with."
I loved BeOS and all and I hate saying it, but a factory Windows install from Dell probably has more applications running in the XP system tray than the total applications that were available for BeOS.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
"Quit making excuses for Microsoft. They already have a very expensive PR dept for that sort of thing."
Who do you think is paying him?
> The left hand REALLY has no idea what the ... Is it really a lie if they didn't know
> right hand is doing. What makes you think
> that their marketing team is any different?
>
> any better?
Yes, because if the left doesn't know what the right hand is doing, then it has no business making promises about what the right hand is doing.
Undoubtedly you meant,
"It sounds as though you have been too near the bogon flux"
or perhaps
"you sound like a Vogon".
If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
Stardock's WindowBlinds has been offering...
Whose what?
impressive but you can put a fruit pastle in your mouth and not chew it?
I think Hans understands what WinFS is more than you can ever dream of.
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