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Microsoft seeks to smooth Longhorn adoption

...month will disclose additional details on the company's ambitious plans with WinFS. At the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles at the end of... Read more

15 October, 2003 by Martin LaMonica

WinFS slips out of Windows Server schedule

...work in progress. Although Microsoft hopes to ship a test version of WinFS in late 2006, it could be several more years before the revamped... Read more

13 December, 2004 by Ina Fried

File under ground

WinFS is no more. The wonderful icing on the file-system cake that... Read more

27 June, 2006 by Leader

Microsoft deletes WinFS from Windows

Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than Windows. Quentin Clark, who... Read more

26 June, 2006 by Martin LaMonica

Microsoft tests new Windows file system

...file system. The company made the test version of the system, called WinFS, available to Microsoft Developer Network subscribers. The software giant had originally planned... Read more

30 August, 2005 by Ina Fried and Mike Ricciuti

Longhorn lowdown: What's up?

...in a reasonable time frame. Developers can rightly mourn the loss of WinFS from the initial release, but there are plenty of other reasons to... Read more

17 November, 2004 by Robert W.McLaws

Longhorn's longer odds

...aren't going to spend their lives carefully describing documents so that WinFS can find them blindingly fast. We can do that already -- Word can... Read more

2 September, 2004 by Rupert Goodwins

Longhorn: End-to-end search remains a dream

...told ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News.com. The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system that Microsoft says will... Read more

14 May, 2004 by Martin LaMonica and Mike Ricciuti
Microsoft researcher stores digital life

Microsoft researcher stores digital life

...on a course to get this implements with [the Microsoft file system] WinFS. Then WinFS got thrown out of Vista. You see all of the... Read more

12 February, 2009 by Colin Barker

Vista stumbles through one-year milestone

...most innovative features, such as the beefed-up filing system known as "WinFS", to get the product out the door. The improvements over XP that... Read more

30 November, 2007 by ZDNet

A quick guide to Windows Vista's new file system

...s more ambitious plans for a whole new file system (the new WinFS file system is expected to be a feature of the Longhorn server... Read more

3 January, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

The hard lessons of Vista

What can Microsoft learn from the endless delays that seem to plague Windows upgrades? Read more

23 March, 2006 by Ina Fried

Vista's successor rechristened Vienna

...part of Vienna, most notably a new file storing mechanism known as WinFS Read more

23 January, 2006 by Ina Fried

Windows Vista: Build 5231

...Foundation (formerly known as Avalon) and previewed some features of the new WinFS file system, although it wasn't the full file system update we... Read more

18 October, 2005 by Allen Fear

Developers cautiously welcome Vista

...graphics engine Avalon. He was also excited by the new file system WinFS, even though this has been dropped from the initial release of Vista... Read more

15 September, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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apexwm

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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

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@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

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As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

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