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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The longer the better by darilon · 2006-07-07 15:45 · Score: 0, Troll

The longer it takes for Vista release the happier I'll be. I have no need for it's bloat and no desire to strip it down till it works well. Here's hoping Apple and Linux can break into the market more in the future and most critically get support from game companies (tho I suspect MS will work hard to block it).