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Story: Windows is weak: Where's the Alternative?Total Replies: 2
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triangle

May 17, 2006
4:16 PM EDT
WinFS seems to be a really interesting one structure. If you also wish to know more on it I recommend give a look at this source http://www.ntfs.com/
grouch

May 17, 2006
4:57 PM EDT
Regarding WinFS, I recommend:

"On the Art (?) of Disinformation: telling the Big Lie" By Andy Updegrove http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?stor...

'Longhorn enters the "witching season"' by Joe Barr http://www.newsforge.com/trends/03/11/10/1715213.shtml?tid=1...

"Vapourware" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

"Vaporware Phantom Haunts Us All" by Leander Kahney http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,66195-3,00.html?tw=...

'Steve Story said, "WinFS has been vaporware for over a decade, and recently a delay of many more years was announced. (2008 has been bandied about.) Somewhere, Microsoft programmers are spending their entire careers on a single piece of vaporware."'
number6x

May 18, 2006
6:25 AM EDT
Hey, I thought that the database based file system was going to be part of the fully 32-bit, fully memory protected, fully multitasking Windows 95!

And now you tell me none of those were delivered!

Well, lying about their products has always made them the most profitable software company in the past. As long as customers keep lining up to shell over hard earned cash for the products, why should Microsoft change? The products never delivered what was promised before, why should anything change now?

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