Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Jun 2006 21:19 UTC, submitted by CPUGuy
"There are obviously a lot of questions on people's minds. So I post again today trying to answer some of them. To those who think I am not a real person but rather a name in front of PR machinery that's just not true. I am flesh and blood with a job, a team, and a passion for what we have been pursuing in WinFS. And even a life outside of Microsoft Building 35 with a wife, kids and other interests. Certainly seems like I might have been too careful in wording last week was not my intention to offend bloggers everywhere, really."
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Member since:2005-07-06
I certainly wasn't questioning, or trying to shoot the messenger. Microsoft refusing to give WinFS as a free update to all those people who'd forked out for Vista and rolling it into SQL Server to try and make more money was always on the cards.
Just because the technology is being used in SQL Server doesn't mean it will only be available in SQL Server nor only for a price. There are 2 free versions of SQL Server (SQL Express and SQL Everywhere), and they've mentioned that the technology could make it into a number of products. They just aren't shipping the whole thing as one big package and staggering updates to client, then server, then SQL, as they were originally.
Member since:2005-07-06
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2005-07-06
I certainly wasn't questioning, or trying to shoot the messenger. Microsoft refusing to give WinFS as a free update to all those people who'd forked out for Vista and rolling it into SQL Server to try and make more money was always on the cards.