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2005-08-19
Seriously: I wonder how many users are actually going to use SQL queries for searching files ? For me it's similar to the multimedia keyboards: I know many people that have it, but they never use their full capabilities.
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Then there are some of us who saw internet/multimedia keyboards a waste of time and could never understand why the plebs out there like the rubbish anyway - then again, these are the same people who think that its sexy that their computer speakers hang off their side of their monitor like giant ears.
Anyway, its going to be interesting to see how it is integrated into applications - the simple fact of the matter is, Spotlight/Coredata and WinFS go alot further than Life queries ever did; its a complete API that allows extensive database capabilities to application developers - rather than them going out and trying to create some weird ass format that no one has ever heard of, it'll simply be a matter of using the Coredata/Spotlight or WinFS API and create that a storage mechanism that is not only fast but accessible not only to their own application (obviously!) but to third party's as well - the ability to search emails from your word processor for one thing; having one centralised address book that is accessible to all applications rather than having a a seperate address book for each application.
These are moves that are similar but at the same time different to what has been on offer in the past - the provide the same sort of feature set, but they extend their use alot further than simply have a dinky dialogue box and the ability to search the disk on the fly.
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2005-07-11
There are so many uses for this, for example instead of having itunes using its own database engine, and then having outlook client using it own database engine and then having rss bandit use its own database engine for storing information you could just have one?
Why have 3 applications loading there own engines into memory and using CPU when you don’t need to?
Why have 3 applications storing your data in weird and inaccessible formats?
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Since WinFS will work on top of NTFS, and having changed NTFS from win2k to XP and 2k3, I would guess the NTFS version in Vista will also have it's changes and be new here and there.
Maybe they've worked out the fragmenting problems. Any FS will fragment if given enough time, and you do enough installing/deleteing of files and so on. Some just fragment faster then others.
But I'm sure they're working on it, they've been re-writing other parts of the OS, why not make more changes to NTFS?
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The registry although the basic idea was good, in execution is a desaster, the bookkeeping is too much for a single client workstation, the whole thing has become a datadump for thousands of keys where nobody really knows anymore if you can alter them.
Add to that the fact, that it basically is a constant source of corrupting your system if one part of it goes severely down.
Although the concept is old, and Windows had it before the registry desaster, textual config files are way better, less system corruptable and easier to maintain.
Windows never should have moved from config files to the registry.
