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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. Call it what it is... by dyfet · · Score: 1, Troll
    Simply call it what it is, fraud, from a company that knowingly engages in deceptive business practices. Nothing really special here at all, nor are they the first or only corporation to knowingly engaging in customer fraud. It is not even a story in itself relevant or specific to software, but rather related to far too many accepted corporate business practices in general.

    1. Re:Call it what it is... by Alien+Being · · Score: 0, Troll

      WRONG! MS is 39% incompetent and 61% fraudulent.

  2. Re:Carry on.... by PepeGSay · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice use of the classic "There is some code in a source tree somewhere that does that."

  3. Re:an amazing promise by curious.corn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you have MS stock invested? If not, rather than defending MS just dip your hand in the wallet and get a Mac... that's an upgrade.

    Or you could wait... of course... CNGRTLNS.W95

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