Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 31st Dec 2006 12:08 UTC
"Face it, Windows Vista is just so played these days. With that preliminary biz release under its belt, we're ready for bigger and better things, and luckily a certain "jameskyton" drive-by-blogger has the low-down for us on Vista's successors, Fiji and Vienna". Read more at Engadget.
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2005-11-14
No, it's not: the filesystem is and presumably will remain NTFS for some time (maybe with further refinations).
WinFS is just a SQLServer instance hidden in the OS, that will hold the metadata harvested from the filesystem itself.
It will then be used to perform live queries that abstract from the folder structure.
...all this is guesswork, obviously, since WinFS is still vapor.
Oh, and in case you noticed, yes it's the same thing BeOS did some 10 years ago, but with a hell of an overhead