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WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the small-little-pop dept.

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.

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  1. Not a Bang or a Whimper? by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about a Poot?

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  2. Road Map by xixax · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I suppose the purpose of having a road map is so that we can see where we didn't go.

    Xix.

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  3. Re:While on the subject by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Filesystems are for posers. Just write one big tar file to /dev/hda.

  4. Huh? by Eric+Damron · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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."

    Oops... Too late for that don't you think?!

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  5. Re:Stable version even w/o WinFS ? by MarkByers · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's VISTA an acronym for?

    I thought everybody knew this by now.

    Viruses, Infections, Spyware, Trojans and Adware.

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