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Exclusive: Latest Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, WinFS, SQL Server 2005 Timelines Revealed
White Papers The author has come across the release schedules for Windows Vista (codenamed "Longhorn"), WinFS, and SQL Server 2005 (codenamed "Yukon"). According to internal Microsoft documentation, the software giant is planning an aggressive release schedule...
[December 6, 2006, 0:00]
Longhorn Deserves Short Shrift
Leader "The plan we have does give up WinFS shipping with Longhorn. But if Microsoft was to go with the original concept of Longhorn with WinFS intact, and with a ship-date of around 2007, then who's to say how much ground the Linux could have made up in...
[August 31, 2004, 12:45]
Microsoft Seeks To Smooth Longhorn Adoption
News One of the most significant enhancements to Longhorn is a data storage system called WinFS, technology designed to make information easier to find and view. A conference description of WinFS notes that the storage system supports the new...
[October 15, 2003, 15:55]
Tiger's Search Function Set To Roar
Talkback What will OS X be like in 2008, when Longhorn is finally completed with WinFS? WinFS is vaporware. We won't see it till the first service pak for Longhorn, the soonest, which is 2008. It was suppose to be a complete replacement for the current file...
[March 16, 2005, 18:14]
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. Microsoft does plan to include WinFS in the client version of Longhorn, which is expected to ship...
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
WinFS Slips Out Of Windows Server Schedule
News The software maker has already decided that WinFS will ship separately from Longhorn, the new desktop version of Windows that is due in 2006. On Friday, Windows server chief Bob Muglia said that WinFS will also not be a part of the server version...
[December 13, 2004, 8:30]
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]
Microsoft Tests New Windows File System
News The software giant had originally planned to release WinFS - which it said would make for better desktop file searching - as part of the next version of Windows, once called Longhorn but now known as Vista.
[August 30, 2005, 9:10]
Will Longhorn Be Worth The Pain?
News It has also stripped out WinFS completely and will not now make the offering available in the initial client release of Longhorn at all, let alone the server version. Microsoft must provide developers with access to the technology — hence the...
[March 18, 2005, 16:25]
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]
Leaked Windows Hints At Changes To Come
News At the same time, Microsoft is likely to be forced to deliver WinFS in pieces, first in Yukon and then in Longhorn. The leaked version of Longhorn does not yet use WinFS as the native file system. Microsoft plans many other security enhancements to...
[March 4, 2003, 13:19]
Longhorn Lowdown: What's Up?
News First, you're probably going to see WinFS ship at the same time as Longhorn Server, which will probably be named Windows Server 2007. From that point, you'll probably see WinFS on Longhorn Client by default either in a Longhorn Service Pack 1, or...
[November 17, 2004, 13:50]
Longhorn Beta To Arrive 'by June'
News The third major component, a reworking of the Windows file system known as WinFS, has been delayed past Longhorn's release and is expected to be in beta testing when Longhorn ships. It is unclear when WinFS will be integrated into Windows itself.
[February 8, 2005, 8:10]
Longhorn's Range Shrunk For Greater Speed
News WinFS will be available as a beta when the Longhorn release comes out as a client. Doing that, Allchin said, meant taking WinFS out of Longhorn. The company now believes it can more fully implement the new storage concept and do so simultaneously...
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
Mono Seeks To Open Up .Net
News So, for example at Novell -- and this was a choice that I really wasn't involved in -- but they looked at the (Mono) technology and they found exactly what they were looking for implementing this thing called iFolder 3.0, which is a new version...
[July 16, 2004, 14:25]
KDE To Include Google-type Desktop Search
News The plans for Longhorn include a new method of file storage called Windows Future Storage (WinFS). Microsoft's Web site claims that WinFS will revise the way users can search for files, regardless of which application created the data.
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
Metadata Holds Key To Future Of Storage
News While the EMC move for Documentum may spark a wave of consolidation in the storage virtualisation area, there's one likely-to-be-metadata-driven blip on the radar -- WinFS, a new Microsoft file system that's expected to be a part of the next...
[October 21, 2003, 14:55]
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. Microsoft is expected to release a beta version of the Longhorn...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
How The EC's Ruling Will Affect Longhorn
News Storage: Because WinFS includes at least some technology borrowed from Microsoft's SQL Server database, analysts said the move could be interpreted as a bundling of database software with Windows. The software underlying that feature, code-named...
[March 24, 2004, 13:15]
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]
