WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper

Shadowruni writes "The Seattle-PI confirms with Mircosoft what MS bloggers and pundits have been saying all along. WinFS simply isn't going to happen. Some of its features have been 'merged' with other projects." From the article: "WinFS was dropped from Vista in what company executives described at the time as a trade-off to get the operating system completed in a timely manner. The release of Vista has since been delayed again and is now scheduled for November for large customers and January 2007 for the general public, though some observers say it may be out even later." Final confirmation of a story from last month.

Comments

While on the subject

[The_Abortionist]

Let's drop EXT3 and reiser FS. EXT3's journaling is too broken and reiser FS is just unstable.

Perhaps Linux should adopt NTFS as the default file system, with a tweak or two for permissions.

Re:Where is the latest & greatest in OS develo

[bergeron76]

You sound remarkably like an Apple "shill". Your post includes no fewer than 4 perfectly capitalized "NeXTSTEP" words; it sounds very provocatuer considering Apple's history with Next, and the poor spelling typically found in emotional slashdot replies (except for mine, because I'm better than everyone).

That said, OS X does completely rock my world (as my desktop of choice). I can't wait to see what Leopard/Cheetah will bring...