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- WinFS
- WINdows Future Storage The code name for an object-oriented unified storage subsystem that runs on top of the NTFS file system. WinFS was initially expected in Windows Vista,...
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- ZFS on Snow Leopard? Forget about it!
- Isn't it funny how the Apple crowd ........ attacked Microsoft when WinFS was pulled from Vista but appear to be totally absent on this story? I can't wait to see how they alibi Apple for this move.They'll defend it based upon licensingbut all that will prove is Apple was...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WinFS
- Discussion threads 2009-10-27
- Why do you want WinFS?
- Why do you want WinFS?same questionI posted exactly the same question to AKH article talkback. It will be interesting to see the answers.This makes everything so easy, now.If MS doesn't deliver it, then it's not really a necessary technology or all that important.It makes life so much easier when every...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, SEARCH, Digital music, Digital media, WinFS, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-20
- Why do you want WinFS?
- Every time the conversation turns to Windows 7, the subject of WinFS comes up. This next-generation file storage software was cut from Windows Vista and eventually killed completely nearly four years ago. But it keeps reappearing on lists of features that people want to see in Windows 7. Why? WinFS...
- Tags: WinFS, NTFS.com, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-08-20
- Windows 7 wishes
- Today Ed Bott has been furiously rubbing the lamp hoping that the great genie Sinofsky will appear and grant him some wishes. Well, since there's a chance that Microsoft is listening, here's my wishlist. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: WinFS, Microsoft Windows 7, Operating System, Aero, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-08-19
- Microsoft readies new Storage 1.0 feature pack for Windows
- Microsoft readies new Storage 1.0 feature pack for WindowsWhere's WinFS then ?Looks like the once much vaunted WinFS is still a no show.Maybe Microsoft should bit the bullet and licence ZFS from Sun, like Apple, and be done with it. We could then have a decent File System.RE: Microsoft...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, WinFS, new Storage 1.0, Storage 1.0, Storage 1.0 feature, Microsoft Ready, Microsoft Corp., storage
- Discussion threads 2008-08-18
- Untangling the Microsoft mesh
- "Mesh" was Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie's word of the day last week at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference. Ozzie waxed prolific on "social mesh," "device mesh," "seamless mesh" and more. But what are the technological underpinnings that will allow users and developers to bring everything together...
- Tags: WinFS, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Sync Famework, Microsoft Horizon, Microsoft Windows, RSS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard
- ZFS beta now on Mac OS X LeopardYeah, Microsoft hasn't done ANY work with file systems...And people complain about Vista compatibility. You know very well that a new file system, no matter what is going to break legacy applications, and why Microsoft has no choice other to be VERY careful...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, ZFS, beta, Apple Mac OS X Leopard, WinFS, file system, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-01-09
- Microsoft Research shows off what's next for search
- Microsoft Research shows off what's next for searchsearch futuresany clues on a WinFS successor?I'll be intrested to see how this pans out...While Microsoft as a company takes heat for copying others and not being innovative, there have been some really neat things to come form MSR.A lot of the work...
- Tags: Tablets, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Office, Notebooks, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., WinFS, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
- Discussion threads 2007-03-06
- P2P Replica Synchronization With Vector Sets
- This paper describes an enhanced replica synchronization mechanism built in Microsoft's WinFS replica management system. The paper introduces a novel bundling mechanisms called VS, which groups together multiple objects and represents their state in a single version-vector. VS provide improved storage and communication overheads over previously known optimistic replication schemes,...
- Tags: WinFS, P2P, Microsoft Corp., Peer To Peer (P2P), Storage, Internet, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-13
- Can Microsoft's 'Harmonica' create P2P harmony across all devices?
- Ever since Microsoft decided in June 2006 to ax the standalone version of its WinFS uber file system, the company has been noticeably silent about its data synchronization plans. But that doesnt mean the company has given up on its ambitious strategy to synchronize data across...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Java development tools, Peer to peer (P2P), Operating systems, P2P, HARMONICA, WinFS, Microsoft Corp., SyncToy PowerToy
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Novell makes file-storage software shift
- Novell makes file-storage software shiftHaving read some of his more asinine posts I's place hismental facilities some where between Loverock and No_Ax.so much for OSSthe mis-conception that open source developers are the best. If it was Windows that was delayed, imagine the posts by *nix fanboys.Open Source drives people...
- Tags: software, open source, Journaling, WinFS, file system, NTFS, Reiser, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-12
- C3, WinFS return to womb, Microsoft unified communication, Xeon 5100 and more...
- This week on The Dan & David Show, David calls in from Katz's Deli in New York City while he attended the C3 Expo not much news. We discuss the fate of the much anticipated WinFS file system, Microsoft's unified communications suite coming sometime next year, CompUSA and NetSuite,...
- Tags: podcast
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- WinFS: Returned to its womb?
- WinFS: Returned to its womb?It's the APIs, StupidI think you could get a clearer picture on this from John Carroll, but the best I can tell is that what's going back to MSSQLServer country is going to be the cleaned-up APIs that were shopped out for MSVista.[i]Apparently[/i] the metadata organization...
- Tags: Operating systems, WinFS, Microsoft Corp., file system, BeOS
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- WinFS: Returned to its womb?
- In writing WinFS R.I.P., my fellow ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant devotes sufficient text and linkage to what to many appears to be the death of WinFS: the supposedly revolutionary new Windows file system that Microsoft can't seem to shrink wrap and get out the door. Wrote Orchant: ...
- Tags: WinFS
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- R.I.P. WinFS
- R.I.P. WinFSA blog entry...... with the future course of action described as "way cool"? Why did Microsoft announce a major disappointment in this way? Bill Gates had made this a priority. Is this a prompt result of Mr. Ozzie's appointment as Chief software architect?Following Microsoft has some...
- Tags: Databases, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Following Microsoft, WinFS, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- WinFS heads for Microsoft database
- WinFS heads for Microsoft databaseforget about WinF$it went to the dumpster same way windoze vista will go.Be smart and get Linux, not over hyped hot air.Well, the village idiots can't make it work. Long on "brilliant" ideas,short on brains. I am sure they would like to own all the file...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Databases, Operating systems, Rep, WinFS, file system, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, database
- Discussion threads 2006-06-26
- R.I.P. WinFS
- WinFS, the new-fangled file system that was one of the crown jewels of the original Longhorn nee Vista vision for years has been laid to rest in Redmond, Washington. Vaya con dios. Sadly, the ability to admit failure seems to be sharing the grave with the now all-but-abandoned attempt to...
- Tags: WinFS
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- Ray in Charge
- Ray in ChargeClean it up Steve."email or kid shit"You think only adults read this? Do you think even adults don't get tired of vulgarities? Keep lowering the bar...way to go.Please, keep these articles cleanI am really offended that Steve is allowed to post blogs with this kind of...
- Tags: Blogging, WinFS
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
- How much Vista sucks (or doesn't)
- How much Vista sucks (or doesn't)you go, dudeMarc, why don't you tell us what you REALLY think. :)Xp versus VistaFrom my vantage point, it seems that vista will not be apart of our business plan for at least five years. The reasons are simple, we already went through an...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, WinFS, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-03-02
- Gates on software innovation: 'Magic threshold'
- Gates on software innovation: 'Magic threshold'Gates on software innovation: 'Magic threshold'This is why I give credit to Bill Gates. He's a very smart man and a forward thinker. He knows where technology is going and he wants to be there when it happens. Its this type of...
- Tags: Now IT, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., software innovation, WinFS, speech recognition, software
- Discussion threads 2005-09-16
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