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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. On Friday, Windows server chief Bob Muglia said that WinFS will also not...
[December 13, 2004, 8:30]
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...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
WinFS Slips Out Of Windows Server Schedule
Talkback One possible form of WinFS is a distributed, virtualised and intelligent storage system, which can be accessed from both Windows and Linux clients for data-mining. Theoretically, a file system is not necessarily a part of operating system.
[December 13, 2004, 19:42]
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]
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: End-to-end Search Remains A Dream
News And Muglia said WinFS will be included in the server version of Longhorn, slated to debut in 2007. The translation: WinFS won't be fully useable on a large-scale basis to search content across corporate networks when Longhorn server ships.
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
Leaked Windows Hints At Changes To Come
News But the real benefit would come on Windows Server, a place WinFS might not appear until 2006 or 2007. Dubbed Windows Future Storage (WinFS), the new means for storing, accessing or indexing files would replace NTFS and FAT32, the predecessors used...
[March 4, 2003, 13:19]
Microsoft Seeks To Smooth Longhorn Adoption
News A conference description of WinFS notes that the storage system supports the new application programming interfaces (API) built into Longhorn as well as the existing Win32 APIs for tapping into Windows' functions.
[October 15, 2003, 15:55]
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's Range Shrunk For Greater Speed
News 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 communication architecture.
[August 31, 2004, 10:50]
Metadata Holds Key To Future Of Storage
News The dead giveaway is one of WinFS' lynchpins: the next version of Microsoft's SQL Server relational database (code-named Yukon). Microsoft has already said that the querying capabilities of SQL Server are a key building block of WinFS.
[October 21, 2003, 14:55]
Microsoft Steps Up The Pace On Longhorn
News Dubbed Windows Future Storage (WinFS), the new means for storing, accessing or indexing files would replace NTFS and FAT32, which are used by Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows. The newest release of Longhorn bolsters support for WinFS...
[April 29, 2003, 7:29]
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. Apple also detailed the planned features for the Unix-based...
[April 13, 2005, 9:45]
Microsoft Mum On Server Longhorn
News WinFS uses relational database technology developed for the Yukon release of SQL Server to assign more information to files, making it easier to sort out calendar information, music files and other data types.
[August 4, 2003, 14:35]
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]
What's This Vista Thing, Then?
News The company has dropped plans to include its all-new WinFS file system and has also changed the way it's implementing a new Web services architecture, known as Indigo, and a new graphics engine, dubbed Avalon.
[October 20, 2005, 18:45]
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]
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]
Microsoft Plans First Peek At Longhorn For October
News Using relational database technology developed for the "Yukon" release of SQL Server, WinFS is designed to assign more information to files, making it easier to sort calendar information, music files and other data types.
[August 26, 2003, 11:40]
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]
