Windows Longhorn: Build M5 review
Reviews Windows Future Storage (WinFS) promises to make the physical location of files irrelevant, thanks to an elaborate system of shortcuts and desktop-based searching. However, even though WinFS isn't yet present, build M5 clearly lays the groundwork...
[May 8, 2003, 7:33]
KDE To Include Google-type Desktop Search
News Microsoft's Web site claims that WinFS will revise the way users can search for files, regardless of which application created the data. The plans for Longhorn include a new method of file storage called Windows Future Storage (WinFS).
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
Apple To Unleash Tiger On 29 April
News Microsoft originally had planned to include new search features in Longhorn based on a new file system, called WinFS. But it has pushed back delivery of WinFS to 2007, at the earliest. Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted the security and search features of...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
How The EC's Ruling Will Affect Longhorn
News The software underlying that feature, code-named WinFS, will allow customers to search the Web, e-mail and desktop applications such as Microsoft Word. Storage: Because WinFS includes at least some technology borrowed from Microsoft's SQL Server...
[March 24, 2004, 13:15]
Longhorn's Range Shrunk For Greater Speed
News 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 not have been possible had WinFS been part of Longhorn.
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
Google: Time For World Domination?
Talkback To compare Google Desktop Search with WinFS is misguided and misleading. The author of this report has obviously not taken a detailed look at what WinFS will provide.
[September 30, 2005, 10:15]
Corporate Search Heats Up As IBM Enters Market
News One of the "pillars" of the upcoming Longhorn version of Windows is WinFS, a file system designed to simplify search desktop PCs and company networks. Microsoft has delayed planned delivery of WinFS until 2007.
[September 30, 2004, 9:20]
A Quick Guide To Windows Vista's New File System review
Reviews But falling well short of Microsoft'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 release, which is due by early 2008), Windows Vista performs best as a...
[January 3, 2007, 9:35]
Leaked Windows Hints At Changes To Come
News Although these new organisational and search capabilities certainly exceed those found in Windows XP, they are a shadow of what Microsoft might deliver with Yukon and WinFS, Silver said. At the same time, Microsoft is likely to be forced to deliver...
[March 4, 2003, 13:19]
Gates Explains Longhorn Changes
News But to make that date, it had to delay the full implementation of WinFS, an ambitious file system geared toward letting users search through all of their files at once. So now, we're doing the search stuff in Longhorn 06, and then we're releasing...
[August 31, 2004, 11:05]
Windows 6.0/Longhorn: An Early Look review
Reviews The new file system, Windows Future Storage (WinFS), which is based on SQL Server 2003 (codenamed Yukon), looks very promising. Longhorn's new WinFS file system is included in the alpha build 3683, although the services are not functional yet.
[February 21, 2003, 15:41]
Longhorn Deserves Short Shrift
Leader Although Microsoft has made the WinFS search functionality a key part of its marketing push for the next version of Windows, the company never sounded completely convincing - or, indeed, convinced. "The plan we have does give up WinFS shipping with...
[August 31, 2004, 12:45]
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. Perhaps prompted by the success of Google Desktop Search, Vista's indexed search feature will scour for...
[November 30, 2006, 10:01]
Windows Vista Beta 1: Screenshot Gallery review
Reviews Although Windows Vista won't include the much-touted Windows File Structure (WinFS), it will still allow you to think outside the box. Embedded within Vista is an integrated desktop search. While many of the cosmetic touches (such as the finalised...
[August 19, 2005, 10:05]
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]
