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Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech

Posted by timothy on from the would-you-like-to-buy-some-stones? dept.

nk497 writes "Following the demise of Windows Home Server's Drive Extender, Jon Honeyball looks back on Microsoft's long, long list of storage disasters, from the dodgy DriveSpace to the Cairo Object File System, and on to the debacle that was WinFS."

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  1. Makes me glad I quit Windows years ago by antifoidulus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seriously, drive extender's "features" that Microsoft couldn't get to work right include stuff that has been standard in the Unix world for over a decade. Tell me again why people even bother with windows, especially a "server" edition? It's not nearly as functional as Linux but you get to pay a ton of money for it and get DRM as a bonus! Wow, where do I sign up?

    Microsoft's new slogan: We are pushing the boundaries of what the rest of the computing world was doing 20 years ago.

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    Monstar L