Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 20th Apr 2006 00:00 UTC
"I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003. Several thousand developers - and, let's face it, quite a few garden variety Windows enthusiasts - charged into Hall A at the Los Angeles Convention Center like teenage girls at a Justin Timberlake concert, volleying for the best seats. I've been to more Bill Gates keynotes than I can count, and this was the first time I ever saw anyone climb over other people in order to secure a better view (no offense to Mr. Gates, but he's not exactly a dynamic speaker). It was PDC 2003 and everything was right with my world." Read more of the editorial here.
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a wet dream of filesystem developers since beos, and everyone who touched it failed. Reason, set based structures do not match well with tree like organisational structures.
Everyone and that really means everyone who has tried it has given this dream up for the sake of having a simple indexing mechanism instead of a full blown vfs on top of a relational data store.
If Microsoft had studied the history and papers they would have known that upfront (one word BeOS) but looking at the past so that they do not replicate the errors others did was never the strong side of them. But at least they were able to row back, normally they feed their reinwent the wheel dreck to the users (speaking of the failure COM and ActiveX where everyone warned upfront)