"Spotlight is nice, but it's mostly a search engine that lets applications help it."
Ah yes - but understand that by the time that WinFS in it's final incarnations was finally culled from the product, that is in effect all it was. A massive file metadata index.
The problem is, you're integrating the original vision from Cairo, the smoke and mirrors vision from PDC 2003 in LA, and the WinFS distortion field created by the press. WinFS as it existed in Longhorn wasn't going to be that object-oriented store. It was going to be a duct-taped SQL instance on top of NTFS, with lots of loose ends.
The versions licensed via Software Assurance were all available in Q4CY06 - because they are delivered electronically. There is no magic juju that happened in the first three months of 2007 that made Home any different - it was the exact same codebase - only it had been localized, had shiny media made, and been put into retail boxes.
Where do I begin?
WinFS was never a filesystem in it's own right. It was a glommed-on database where an integrated SQL Server instance stored one table, and then NTFS stored another - and the data was never very well linked together. Frankly I was disappointed in the WinFS implementation from the very first time someone actually described how it worked. Vista is touch-and-go enough for most consumers without having WinFS - the usability problems WinFS would have brought would not have been worth it as it was. It was cut because it was not ready for prime-time - just as several cool features were in XP, and Windows 2000 before it.
MinWin has existed for some time. It won't ever see the light of day as something the average user will see.
What you're theorizing is happening, isn't happening.
The three technologies you mentioned don't protect a document independent of location. The first two can protect it over the wire. Yes, PKI can conceivably be used to encrypt and decrypt the document as well. But the problem is if Alice gives it to Bob, and Alice doesn't want Carol to see it - because it's company confidential information. But Bob is a gossip, especially when he's flirting with Carol at the watercooler, so he saves it and emails it to Carol. Who promptly emails it to her actual boyfriend, who works as a reporter at the Seattle Times.
Microsoft actually makes a technology that does this (Rights Management Services) - and with the exception of the analog hole, it works quite well to ensure that Carol only gets a blob of binary goo - and OS-wide, blocks Cut|copy operations as well as screenshots.
Agreed - I have an Intel MBP and iMac (2 and 4 GB, respectively) and both are up for weeks at a time. Sounds like the OP needs to take a look at what kind of software he's running...
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And what about the row of teens in front of you, texting their friends through the whole movie? I'm assuming an upgrade like that has to be pretty expensive...
And a PITA to test and support. That's why it isn't built nearly that malleably - but Windows Server 2008 (take a look at the Core) does begin to look at some level of flexibility in what's there and what's not.
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Sounds like you might want to choose another communications carrier/medium...
I think you may have missed the news: Microsoft already agreed to disclose exactly that: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39291688,00.htm
Um... Microsoft does offer pretty considerable volume licensing...
Yes, you can TS into a Server Core system.
As does AMD.
"Spotlight is nice, but it's mostly a search engine that lets applications help it."
Ah yes - but understand that by the time that WinFS in it's final incarnations was finally culled from the product, that is in effect all it was. A massive file metadata index.
The problem is, you're integrating the original vision from Cairo, the smoke and mirrors vision from PDC 2003 in LA, and the WinFS distortion field created by the press. WinFS as it existed in Longhorn wasn't going to be that object-oriented store. It was going to be a duct-taped SQL instance on top of NTFS, with lots of loose ends.
/me predicts that in 2015 Microsoft will be selling linux and calling it Windows.
Yes, because we all know that Linux is the consumer desktop success that Vista is not.
Spotlight is what WinFS was supposed to be, but the trees got lost in the grandiosity of the forest.
Not broken development. Broken management. There is a difference. Vista is the result of the latter.
The versions licensed via Software Assurance were all available in Q4CY06 - because they are delivered electronically. There is no magic juju that happened in the first three months of 2007 that made Home any different - it was the exact same codebase - only it had been localized, had shiny media made, and been put into retail boxes.
Where do I begin? WinFS was never a filesystem in it's own right. It was a glommed-on database where an integrated SQL Server instance stored one table, and then NTFS stored another - and the data was never very well linked together. Frankly I was disappointed in the WinFS implementation from the very first time someone actually described how it worked. Vista is touch-and-go enough for most consumers without having WinFS - the usability problems WinFS would have brought would not have been worth it as it was. It was cut because it was not ready for prime-time - just as several cool features were in XP, and Windows 2000 before it.
Holy tinfoil hat... you honestly believe that???
But is there a Mac version available?
MinWin has existed for some time. It won't ever see the light of day as something the average user will see. What you're theorizing is happening, isn't happening.
yes... the analog hole... she knows many avenues...
The three technologies you mentioned don't protect a document independent of location. The first two can protect it over the wire. Yes, PKI can conceivably be used to encrypt and decrypt the document as well. But the problem is if Alice gives it to Bob, and Alice doesn't want Carol to see it - because it's company confidential information. But Bob is a gossip, especially when he's flirting with Carol at the watercooler, so he saves it and emails it to Carol. Who promptly emails it to her actual boyfriend, who works as a reporter at the Seattle Times. Microsoft actually makes a technology that does this (Rights Management Services) - and with the exception of the analog hole, it works quite well to ensure that Carol only gets a blob of binary goo - and OS-wide, blocks Cut|copy operations as well as screenshots.
You work by yourself, don't you? :-)
Agreed - I have an Intel MBP and iMac (2 and 4 GB, respectively) and both are up for weeks at a time. Sounds like the OP needs to take a look at what kind of software he's running...
Or more likely, VMware Fusion or Parallels...
And what about the row of teens in front of you, texting their friends through the whole movie? I'm assuming an upgrade like that has to be pretty expensive...
NTFS under FUSE on Leopard rocks. Just wish it was as easy (and free) to get Windows to talk back to the HFS+ partitions...
Nothing short of a complete redesign could have rescued WinFS. The design as it was was flawed from nearly the beginning.
Millions? Millions? Um... Ok.
Most HP's ship that way but as they almost all have DVD burners, they ship with software to create recovery media from...
And a PITA to test and support. That's why it isn't built nearly that malleably - but Windows Server 2008 (take a look at the Core) does begin to look at some level of flexibility in what's there and what's not.