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Microsoft Deletes WinFS From Windows
News Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than Windows. Microsoft has not precluded using WinFS in Windows but the decision to put portions of it in SQL Server means that WinFS will...
[June 26, 2006, 16:40]
WinFS Slips Out Of Windows Server Schedule
News He stressed that Microsoft is trying to do things with WinFS that no one has ever done before. Although Microsoft hopes to ship a test version of WinFS in late 2006, it could be several more years before the revamped storage mechanism finds its way...
[December 13, 2004, 8:30]
Will Longhorn Be Worth The Pain?
News Microsoft must provide developers with access to the technology — hence the availability of Avalon, Indigo and WinFS on Windows XP and Server 2003 — but that means the applications will also be available on pre-Longhorn releases of the OS...
[March 18, 2005, 16:25]
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. But if Microsoft was to go with the original...
[August 31, 2004, 12:45]
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]
Microsoft Seeks To Smooth Longhorn Adoption
News With Longhorn and WinFS, Microsoft is tackling a nagging problem the company has long sought to address. Clearing up long-standing confusion, a Microsoft senior vice president said that WinFS will work with -- not replace -- the existing file...
[October 15, 2003, 15:55]
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 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. Waiting for WinFS From that point, you'll probably see WinFS on Longhorn Client by default either in a Longhorn...
[November 17, 2004, 13:50]
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]
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]
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. But after pushing the benefits of WinFS -- allowing users to find a piece of...
[September 14, 2004, 13:40]
Longhorn's Range Shrunk For Greater Speed
News 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 for both servers and desktop computers, something that would not have been possible...
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
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. By contrast, chief rival Microsoft has shipped only one major...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
Metadata Holds Key To Future Of Storage
News Microsoft has already said that the querying capabilities of SQL Server are a key building block of WinFS. For example, Microsoft has already made it clear that its forthcoming Yukon relational database technology is a key building block to WinFS.
[October 21, 2003, 14:55]
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. A Microsoft spokeswoman said on Wednesday that she could not give an update on how WinFS would work and when it...
[August 26, 2004, 12:35]
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'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]
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]
File Under Ground
Leader Ten years of promise have been wrapped up with various bits hived off to existing projects — but WinFS as a concept has gone. WinFS is no more. Unlike WinFS. And then there's the manner of WinFS's passing.
[June 27, 2006, 16:55]
Microsoft Tests New Windows File System
News It should also work on Tablet PC and Media Center editions of the OS, but Microsoft has done limited testing of WinFS with those flavours. The company made the test version of the system, called WinFS, available to Microsoft Developer Network...
[August 30, 2005, 9:10]
