June 25th, 2006
WinFS Axed … Again
By Michael Santo
Contributing Writer, RealTechNews
First axed as part of Windows Vista in 2004, then resurrected in August 2005 as an add-on … WinFS has been axed again as Beta 2 has been cancelled.
The idea of WinFS, or Windows File Store, was to create a “sea of data” that abolishes the need for the standard file and folder hierarchy. For example, no longer would documents need to be stored in My Documents or images in My Pictures; instead, Windows would simply display the files associated with a particular request on demand. In addition, WinFS could store structured data such as contacts, calendars and more. Source: BetaNews
We Say: WinFS was the subject of five sessions at TechEd 2006 in Boston last week. Can you say, “What a waste of PowerPoint slides?” 
At any rate, according to Microsoft, much of the technology will be integrated into the next SQL Server, code-named Katmai. Also, code from the WinFS API will also find its way into the next release of Visual Studio.
John Corliss says:
With each new file system and version of Windows which Microsoft comes up with, you have less and less access to what’s actually on your hard drive. And the whole idea behind WinFS is yet another example of programmers trying to tell the user what’s good for them.
Frankly, the whole idea behind Microsoft’s continually changing horses in the middle of the stream, file-systemwise, is to ensure that other OSes like Linus are incompatible.
Yet another reason to avoid Vista like the plague. All it seems to be to me is yet more bloat and pointless, idiotic eye candy. I have no doubt that it will run slower than XP, just like every version of Windows has run slower than the previous one IME.
If Microsoft wants to sell a new version of Windows, all they have to do is to repair all the bugs in the current version and make all the bloat optional.
June 26th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Alex says:
I have never understood how WinFS is going to help me, a user and programmer.
June 26th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
WinFS Axed… Again
Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes: First axed as part of Windows Vista in 2004, then resurrected in August 2005 as an add-on… WinFS has been axed again as Beta 2 has been cancelled. The idea of WinFS, or Windows File Store, was to create a “sea o…
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