Gates Explains Longhorn Changes
Talkback Mr Gates and his men found that WinFS is too valuable to bundle with a desktop OS like XP. They don't have time for blushing WinFS up. They might think WinFS has a possibility to be another cashcow for the company, especially in the context of Web...
[September 2, 2004, 22:09]
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]
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]
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'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]
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]
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]
Microsoft's Plan To Google Hard Drives
News Longhorn will include an underlying technology called WinFS, derived in part from Microsoft SQL Server, that will allow applications to pull data from a unified database. WinFS seeks to bridge the worlds of unstructured documents and data stored in...
[November 25, 2003, 15:05]
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]
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]
Windows Longhorn: More Details Emerge review
Reviews Rather than stashing data in a series of folders and subfolders, WinFS promises to let you organise and search for files based on their content or other attributes. WinFS is a file system that works more like a relational database, which is no...
[November 11, 2003, 7:40]
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]
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]
Sorting Out Microsoft, The American Way
Leader Trade secrets be damned: the only thing it needs to hide from the world is why it makes such a mess of things such as WinFS. With three UK executives being extradited to the Hotel Houston for alleged crimes in Europe, let's have Ballmer and Gates...
[July 12, 2006, 16:55]
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]
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]
