WinFS' Demise Not a Bang Or a Whimper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday July 7, 2006 @03:38PM 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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Re:The longer the better by eeg3 · 2006-07-07 16:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I don't understand why people, such as yourself, still hate Windows so much. I use XP practically non-stop 24/7 on my laptop, and I never seem to have any problems. If I do, there's always System Restore. I also use Debian on my Ultra, and FreeBSD on my Desktop. I like both of them as well, they're both really nice operating systems, but so is Windows.

I guess it is perhaps because Microsoft is viewed as the evil corporation, because they're trying to make money. But, isn't all the good work Bill Gates' foundation is doing for the world help kind of null out some of that bitterness?