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Microsoft Deletes WinFS From Windows
Talkback The real question is why customers that say they are awaiting WinFS waited three years already and were willing to wait even longer. If it's that important for them then why didn't they started looking elsewhere a year or so ago or even sooner?
[June 26, 2006, 23:53]
Microsoft Deletes WinFS From Windows
Talkback dont you love the useless and patheticness of MS? The thing is no amount of fuckups and wrong doings will change how people use MS products, just the ability to use alternatives will do that!
[June 29, 2006, 10:46]
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]
WinFS Slips Out Of Windows Server Schedule
News 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 into Windows Server. He stressed that Microsoft is trying to do things with WinFS that no one...
[December 13, 2004, 8:30]
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. In 2003, Microsoft described WinFS as one of the "pillars" of Windows Vista, which is due early next year.
[June 26, 2006, 16:40]
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]
Microsoft Tests New Windows File System
News The company made the test version of the system, called WinFS, available to Microsoft Developer Network subscribers. However, roughly a year ago, Microsoft announced it was pulling WinFS out of Longhorn in order to let the OS ship in 2006.
[August 30, 2005, 9:10]
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: 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]
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 At the same time, Microsoft is likely to be forced to deliver WinFS in pieces, first in Yukon and then in Longhorn. Although these new organisational and search capabilities certainly exceed those found in Windows XP, they are a shadow of what...
[March 4, 2003, 13:19]
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]
Developers Cautiously Welcome Vista
News As Microsoft is making Indigo, Avalon and WinFS available on Windows XP, some developers may choose to stick with Microsoft's latest operating system rather than migrating. He was also excited by the new file system WinFS, even though this has been...
[September 15, 2005, 12:25]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Longhorn's Range Shrunk For Greater Speed
News Doing that, Allchin said, meant taking WinFS out of Longhorn. Longhorn was originally supposed to have three major changes: a new file system, WinFS; a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon; and Indigo, a Web services and...
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
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]
