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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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27 June 2006 - 10:00 pm
Is it fair to consider WinFS -- MS's promised new SQL-based filesystem -- vaporware? First it was promised as an integral part of Windows Vista. Then, as part of the start-over-from-scratch Vista redesign, it was stripped out of Vista and plans were floated to offer it as a standalone product. Now the word out of Redmond is that WinFS will not be offered as a standalone product, but only as part of the SQL Server and ADO.NET products. Which means that the vast majority of us will never be running WinFS on our desktops. I guess NTFS and FAT32 are going to be around for a while longer.
Posted by on 27 June 2006 at 9:55 PM
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Re: vaporware, there was an interesting comment about this at:
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/06/25/we_come_to_bury_winfs
Posted by Charlie on 28 June 2006 - 12:20 PM