Microsoft buries WinFS!
In the end, the Big challenge in Windows Vista, the new super performant file system, WinFS will never see the light!
In this post Quentin Clarke, the lead program manager of the WinFS project, has confirmed that the file system will not be part of the new MS operating system. The first problems on FS has been unveiled some months ago, when Microsoft released the first beta of Windows Vista, leaving out that particular feature. It was told that it would have been added later, probably in the beta 2. Following this Microsoft delayed it once more, telling that WinFS would have been available only after the definitive release of Vista, probably with the first Service Pack, but today the troubled story of WinFS ends forever.
It seemed that WinFS has to become “the big revolution” in the world of the file systems, moving Windows out of the defragmentation problems, boosting the performances and getting on the top of the available FS. It seemed that it would have changed the way the data would have been stored.
Ok, guys, it’s all over: Microsoft failed to deliver the new functionalities, even if they claim that some of the features will be used in the new SqlServer and in the ADO connector. Uhm… it seem to me that instead of kicking the ball into their own net MS is trying to give the opposing OS only a corner kick!
Bad day for Microsoft, isn’t it?
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