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. It's the fourth major update to Mac OS X since the first...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
Windows Longhorn: More Details Emerge
Talkback First of all, Longhorn isn't going to include WinFS. Secondly, I don't understand all this talk of Microsoft copying OS X's dock. I use OS X and I don't see anything in Longhorn that looks like an OS X dock.
[January 14, 2005, 14:28]
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]
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]
SAP Slams Open Source 'socialism'
Talkback But if you look at the most innovative desktop today, Microsoft's Vista is not copying Linux, it is copying Apple.http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/ followed by the sudden introduction of: http://microsoftgadgets.com/ http://www.apple...
[November 16, 2005, 4:29]
Vista Stumbles Through One-year Milestone
News Some critics argue that Vista was hamstrung before it even hit the streets, after Microsoft decided to pull some of its most innovative features, such as the beefed-up filing system known as "WinFS", to get the product out the door.
[November 30, 2007, 11:37]
Longhorn's Longer Odds
Talkback When I first read about WinFS in the early 90's, and to be released around 1995, it sounded really exciting. And I am not singling out Windows here, OS X, KDE, Gnome and many others are equally guilty here.
[September 3, 2004, 11:13]
