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

Re:Stable version even w/o WinFS ?

[Zemran]

Since when did Microsoft wait until software was stable to release it?

Re:Gee, what a surprise!

[pilgrim23]

"Great Artists Steal"
Microsoft forgot its basics. They know what they must do, they have experience here already and a clear direction and focus: Just like the last time, steal the Apple interface, make a crude but easy to ship UI that kinda sorta looks almost like it, let the marketing dweebs blaze the trail, chuckle on stage at blue screens, issue a service pack every other Tuesday, and if all else fails, throw a chair.