WinFS seems to have been cancelled-- sort of. "These changes do mean that we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."
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Member since:2005-06-29
WinFS was meant to be an object-oriented, relational filesystem to be run on top of a real filesystem.
I always thought it was a sort of database running on top of NTFS. Check the line I quoted from your post, doesn't 'database' fit in better there?
Also, where in the article does it say WinFS is a filesystem? I can't seem to find it-- however, might be me being stupid.
Edited 2006-06-25 12:45
Member since:2005-10-02
It is a sort of database.
But it's also a sort of high-level FS running on top of a low-level FS.
It's a database-like FS-extension.
Am I getting closer to something you can recognize?
The article does not directly use the word "filesystem" but I've always considered WinFS to be a high-level object-oriented, relational file system. So the 4th paragraph sort of points it out for me. Phrases like "richer store", "storage innovations" are what I consider part of a high-level FS.
It fits into what I've learned about FS. The classical Mac FS is a rich storage FS.
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2005-10-02
Actually it was. Even the article states that, Thom.
WinFS was meant to be an object-oriented, relational filesystem to be run on top of a real filesystem.
This is now dead.