Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th May 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Adam S
Back when Windows Vista was still known as Windows Longhorn, the operating system contained a very interesting and promising feature, a feature promoted as one of the 'pillars' of Longhorn: WinFS. WinFS was a storage subsystem for Windows, based on a relational database, that could contain whatever data you wanted to put in it. Thanks to the relational properties of the database, you could then create relationships between data, or let the computer do that for you.
Permalink for comment 314727
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Member since:
2005-07-06
Please, people, read the article PROPERLY before spouting NONSENSE. ZFS, Beagle, Spotlight - they're all awesome, but have absolutely NOTHING to do with the technologies behind WinFS or the original WinFS project that led to their creation.
That's true. If you want a semantic desktop in the *nix world, have a look at nepomuk http://nepomuk.kde.org/
As KDE4 will be ported to Windows, MacOS, there is a chance that we will see the the ideas of the original
WinFS come true, regardless what Microsoft decides to do with WinFS in the future.