Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Dec 2007 14:24 UTC
"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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2005-07-06
No, they couldn't. At and following the PDC, they received feedback from developers wanting to do things that went beyond the scope they originally targeted. This is one of the reasons why WinFS couldn't use Vista as its ship vehicle. Contrary to popular belief, development has not stopped. Just as they promised on the WinFS team blog, development has continued, and the technologies are being delivered, though their names have changed, it's not one monolithic unit, and the technologies are generally better than what would've shipped as WinFS:
Items Data Model -> Entity Data Model shipping in SQL CE 3.5/SQL Server 2008
Object Spaces -> LINQ
Sync Services -> Sync Framework