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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
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
News Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than Windows. Quentin Clark, who runs the WinFS programme management team, disclosed the company's plans in a blog posting on Friday.
[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]
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]
Google: Time for world domination?
Talkback The author of this report has obviously not taken a detailed look at what WinFS will provide. To compare Google Desktop Search with WinFS is misguided and misleading.
[September 30, 2005, 10:15]
Tiger's search function set to roar
Talkback WinFS is vaporware. What will OS X be like in 2008, when Longhorn is finally completed with WinFS? 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. The concepts behind the WinFS project have been in development in one form or another at...
[May 14, 2004, 14:50]
File under ground
Leader WinFS is no more. Ten years of promise have been wrapped up with various bits hived off to existing projects — but WinFS as a concept has gone. Unlike WinFS. And then there's the manner of WinFS's passing.
[June 27, 2006, 16:55]
Longhorn deserves short shrift
Leader "The plan we have does give up WinFS shipping with Longhorn. 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...
[August 31, 2004, 12:45]
P2P Replica Synchronization With Vector Sets
White Papers This paper describes an enhanced replica synchronization mechanism built in Microsoft's WinFS replica management system. This dramatically improves the complexities described in a preliminary write-up of the WinFS replication scheme.
[May 23, 2007, 1:00]
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]
Microsoft seeks to smooth Longhorn adoption
News NTFS is only one component of the revamped storage system in WinFS. 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.
[October 15, 2003, 15:55]
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]
Gates explains Longhorn changes
Talkback They don't have time for blushing WinFS up. Mr Gates and his men found that WinFS is too valuable to bundle with a desktop OS like XP. They might think WinFS has a possibility to be another cashcow for the company, especially in the context of Web...
[September 2, 2004, 22:09]
Will Longhorn be worth the pain?
News WinFS was very compelling, but Longhorn is still changing every six months so it's a bit early to say whether it will be very different to XP. The three pillars of the software giant's next generation Windows OS, due to ship in late 2006...
[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]
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. The removal of WinFS from Longhorn's initial release had even the most respected developers screaming, "Cairo!
[November 17, 2004, 13:50]
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. But Cherry worried "about the transition to WinFS. But the real benefit would come on Windows Server, a place WinFS might not appear...
[March 4, 2003, 13:19]
Developers cautiously welcome Vista
News He was also excited by the new file system WinFS, even though this has been dropped from the initial release of Vista. As Microsoft is making Indigo, Avalon and WinFS available on Windows XP, some developers may choose to stick with Microsoft's...
[September 15, 2005, 12:25]
