Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Oct 2005 10:40 UTC, submitted by Alexandros Roussos
According to sources, Apple will entirely re-design the Finder in its next major Mac OS X update. The new version of the Finder, code-named "Chardonnay" (like the wine), will be totally based on the Spotlight meta-search technology which was introduced earlier this year with Tiger. The aim behind this new Finder is to offer to the user the ability to browse his files just as he browses his music. Users will be able to browse files by different criteria (name, type, creator, creation date, modification date, etc.). Elsewhere, the first benchmarks of the new PowerMacs have arrived.
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[quote] Spotlight is available in Tiger. WinFS isn't available anywhere. [/quote]
That's not entirely true--the WinFS SDK Beta 1 has been available publicly for some time now, and it's pretty functional. However, it's really not the same thing as Spotlight. WinFS is an object-based store moreso than a filesystem or just a metadata search and indexing engine. It doesn't just store files, it also stores contacts, document parts, and a host of other objects.