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Microsoft Tests New Windows File System
News I would certainly not characterize WinFS as being ahead of schedule," said Quentin Clark, director of programme management for the new file system. Originally touting WinFS as the means that would enable better desktop file searching in Longhorn...
[August 30, 2005, 9:10]
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. The filters are yet another layer of the WinFS system.
[May 8, 2003, 7:33]
Microsoft Seeks To Smooth Longhorn Adoption
News Clearing up long-standing confusion, a Microsoft senior vice president said that WinFS will work with -- not replace -- the existing file system in Windows, called NTFS, when WinFS debuts in late 2005 or 2006.
[October 15, 2003, 15:55]
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]
Campaign Group Tries To Block Vista Release
Talkback Longhorn supposed to have different file system WinFS - failure.all Microsoft products and product groups supposed to have NEW PROducts working with WinFS - failure.not even close.not even .net conversion had occured in most products .MSOFFICE...
[August 13, 2005, 20:09]
Leaked Windows Hints At Changes To Come
News The leaked version of Longhorn does not yet use WinFS as the native file system. Microsoft plans many other security enhancements to Longhorn, but because the majority of them are tied to the new file system, many won't debut until Longhorn moves...
[March 4, 2003, 13:19]
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]
Longhorn: End-to-end Search Remains A Dream
News The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system that Microsoft says will make it easier for users to find data such as documents, email messages and multimedia files -- no matter what their format -- on local PCs and across the...
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
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]
Microsoft Deletes WinFS From Windows
News The original goal of WinFS - a concept talked about at Microsoft for many years - was to provide a unified file system for all Windows applications. The bottom line is that WinFS was promoted as a Windows component that would enhance the file...
[June 26, 2006, 16:40]
Vista Still Doing Better Than Expected
Talkback Vista doesn't have all the features I hoped for like WinFS but I think a drastic change in the file system like that would be too confusing for users to make the transition. Vista is a nice stepping stone to get used to tagging, stacking, search...
[March 27, 2007, 12:12]
Longhorn Deserves Short Shrift
Leader "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 version of Windows, the company never sounded completely convincing - or, indeed...
[August 31, 2004, 12:45]
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]
Microsoft Steps Up The Pace On Longhorn
News Dubbed Windows Future Storage (WinFS), the new means for storing, accessing or indexing files would replace NTFS and FAT32, which are used by Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows. The newest release of Longhorn bolsters support for WinFS...
[April 29, 2003, 7:29]
Microsoft Plans First Peek At Longhorn For October
News Although based on the current NTFS system, the new WinFS file system represents a new way of categorising information stored to hard drives and media. Using relational database technology developed for the "Yukon" release of SQL Server, WinFS is...
[August 26, 2003, 11:40]
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]
WinFS Slips Out Of Windows Server Schedule
News When it removed WinFS from Longhorn earlier this year, Microsoft said it would offer developers a beta version of the file system at the same time as Longhorn, but separate from the new OS. Instead, WinFS may not debut in the operating system until...
[December 13, 2004, 8:30]
WinFS Slips Out Of Windows Server Schedule
Talkback One possible form of WinFS is a distributed, virtualised and intelligent storage system, which can be accessed from both Windows and Linux clients for data-mining. Theoretically, a file system is not necessarily a part of operating system.
[December 13, 2004, 19:42]
Tiger's Search Function Set To Roar
Talkback WinFS is vaporware. What will OS X be like in 2008, when Longhorn is finally completed with WinFS? It was suppose to be a complete replacement for the current file system. We won't see it till the first service pak for Longhorn, the soonest, which...
[March 16, 2005, 18:14]
File Under Ground
Leader WinFS is no more. Ten years of promise have been wrapped up with various bits hived off to existing projects — but WinFS as a concept has gone. Unlike WinFS. And then there's the manner of WinFS's passing.
[June 27, 2006, 16:55]
