Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Jul 2006 20:18 UTC, submitted by Gzzy
"It's no secret that WinFS was a great idea without a killer application. Microsoft had to go to great lengths in their demos and evangelism to get people to picture what would be capable with a WinFS application. Microsoft also had problems recruiting for their 'killer app' because those job openings posted on the WinFS blog were actually first posted on the Microsoft website in February and still unfilled in May. iView's Media Pro application is the perfect killer app for WinFS/SQL Server codename 'Katmai'. It relies heavily on a database for it's features."
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2005-12-16
Not that I'm enthused about it, but I think it's excellent strategy by MS. They really need a tool like this to round out the "quality" media tools available for Windows. And, when they start extending it with active-x components or whatever they're using with that dot net stuff these days, it will integrate very nicely with their managed code IDE's to allow new types of views, reports, web presentation, batch jobs, scripting interfaces, etc. I predict that Apple's iTools will pick up some of the features that iView had, and Aperture will pick up the high end stuff. So whether or not I'm enthused about this news, if I was a MS investor, I'd be quite pleased. Curious to see what MS does with this project now.