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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. Perhaps... by LaminatorX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe it was supposed to be "WhenFS?" (FP?)

  2. Re:an amazing promise by archen · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:an amazing promise by MrShaggy · · Score: 4, Funny

    See.. DNF Is based on WINFS.. too bad for the delay..

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  4. News Flash... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows Vista has now been renamed Windows XP Service Pack 3. More at 11!

  5. Next year on E3 by imbaczek · · Score: 5, Funny

    Duke Nukem WinFS Edititon

  6. It's because of the name! by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

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  7. Re:Opposites Distract. by linvir · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's in CVS.

  8. Re:Rehash of XP by DarkVader · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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?

  9. sound like a bogon? by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 4, Funny
    "Sorry dude you sound like a bogan"
    bogons don't make noise.

    Undoubtedly you meant,

    "It sounds as though you have been too near the bogon flux"

    or perhaps

    "you sound like a Vogon".
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  10. Re:Hard Problems and Large Corporations by Flammon · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think you understand what WinFS is

    I think Hans understands what WinFS is more than you can ever dream of.

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