Longhorn Deserves Short Shrift
Leader But without WinFS, Bill better get used to a cup that no longer-runneth over. "The plan we have does give up WinFS shipping with Longhorn. Although Microsoft has made the WinFS search functionality a key part of its marketing push for the next...
[August 31, 2004, 12:45]
Microsoft's Plan To Google Hard Drives
News WinFS seeks to bridge the worlds of unstructured documents and data stored in relational databases with a common storage and look-up mechanism. Longhorn will include an underlying technology called WinFS, derived in part from Microsoft SQL Server...
[November 25, 2003, 15:05]
Microsoft's Mundie Looks Beyond Gates
News Q: Bill Gates has pointed to a couple of things that are still part of his vision but are going to take longer than the amount of time he's going to be working full time — things like the Tablet PC really becoming a mainstream interface and his...
[May 18, 2007, 17:05]
Novell: Linux Turns Up The Heat On Microsoft
News Messman also claimed that Microsoft opted to release the WinFS file system as a separate product and ship Longhorn sooner rather than give Linux more time to mature. Longhorn was originally supposed to have three major changes: a new file system...
[September 14, 2004, 13:40]
The Hard Lessons Of Vista
News It eventually had to pull out WinFS entirely and scale back several other architectural changes in order to make the project more manageable. With Vista, Microsoft originally hoped to make major changes to the underlying code, adding in a new file...
[March 23, 2006, 13:10]
Longhorn: End-to-end Search Remains A Dream
News While WinFS has been scaled back, another major feature, code-named Indigo, may arrive sooner than expected, most likely before Longhorn, Muglia said. The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system that Microsoft says will make...
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
Sun And Microsoft: True Love Or A Marriage Of Convenience?
News Similarly, making Microsoft's file system WinFS run on Solaris would greatly improve search in corporate networks, he said. Papadopoulos, who has met several times with Microsoft chief software architect Bill Gates, said the two companies are doing...
[December 3, 2004, 12:50]
Microsoft Scales Back Longhorn For 2006 Launch
News The company said Longhorn will still include three major advances: a new file system known as WinFS, a new graphics engine dubbed Avalon and a Web Services architecture known as Indigo. As for where the cuts to Longhorn may come, some may be in the...
[April 12, 2004, 10:35]
Gates Reassures Businesses
News When does it get to a point where it's just too hard to add new features, such as a new file system like WinFS, into Windows? It's not the database-driven file system (WinFS) that we had in mind initially, but you get extremely high percentages of...
[March 29, 2006, 14:55]
Windows Vista Beta Due
News It has also delayed a new file system, known as WinFS, that had been slated to be part of the OS. Vista has changed significantly since Microsoft chairman Bill Gates first showed an early version of the then-Longhorn in October 2003.
[July 27, 2005, 9:20]
Gates Explains Longhorn Changes
News We were only doing a pretty modest amount of that under the WinFS that was going to ship in the operating system. But to make that date, it had to delay the full implementation of WinFS, an ambitious file system geared toward letting users search...
[August 31, 2004, 11:05]
Microsoft Mum On Server Longhorn
News WinFS, as the new storage mechanism is known, is a new way of categorising information stored to hard drives and other media. WinFS uses relational database technology developed for the Yukon release of SQL Server to assign more information to...
[August 4, 2003, 14:35]
Longhorn's Range Shrunk For Greater Speed
News WinFS will be available as a beta when the Longhorn release comes out as a client. The company now believes it can more fully implement the new storage concept and do so simultaneously for both servers and desktop computers, something that would...
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
The Windows Vista Timeline
News In the press release a host of new feature monikers were detailed and began to become more familiar: WinFS, WinFX, Avalon, and Indigo. In July of 2002, Bill Gates began touting Longhorn as a significant breakthrough in the Windows operating system.
[May 19, 2006, 13:20]
Today's Vista Launch Is Just The Beginning
News Microsoft's attempts to improve search in Vista took a knock when it was forced to pull its new file system, WinFS, from the operating system. Despite that, search has been improved — it's even reported to be Bill Gates' favourite feature.
[November 30, 2006, 10:01]
Bill Gates Talks Vista And Linux
News One project you have long championed is the idea of WinFS, an all-new file system for Windows. There are some things I'm closely associated with, like tablet [PCs] and WinFS, that people will expect me to shepherd.
[November 20, 2006, 12:48]
Q&A: Gates Beefs Up Longhorn Vision
News But you also get to use the great Avalon graphics and the ability to navigate information with WinFS. There are benefits when you get WinFS on the server or Indigo on the server. We've been hearing about the WinFS unified storage idea since back in...
[October 29, 2003, 9:45]
