__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Wednesday 27 December 2006 19:55 \__
> On 2006-12-27, Larry S. Smith <qwerty@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Roy the Liar wrote:
>>> http://digg.com/software/WinFS_is_Dead
>>
>> ! Warning: The Content in this Article May be Inaccurate
>> Readers have reported that this story contains information that may not be
>> accurate.
>
> From the source: http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/
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> Is WinFS dead?
> Yes and No. Yes, we are not going to ship WinFS as a separate,
> monolithic software component. But the answer is also No - the vision
> remains alive and we are moving the technology forward. A lot of the
> technology really was database stuff and were putting that
> into SQL and ADO. But some of the technology, especially the end user
> value points, are not ready, and were going to continue to work on
> that in incubation. Some or all of these technologies may be used by
> other Microsoft products going forward.
>
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> So, WinFS is not going to ship, but the devs are still playing with it.
> In my book it's still very close to vapourware status.
I could have cited anything and the choice was not deliberate. In any event,
WinFS is one among many components which Longhorn was supposed to have and
began conceding, just around/shortly before the time it got scraped. I can
recall an article from Dvorak (PCMag, almost surely) where he mentioned a
coversation that he has over lunch, with a Microsoft executives.
All 4 of Longhorn's main pillars were dropped. This was pretty much confirmed
at that point. Deadlines were being ignored (eventually extended and bended
like 5 times).
Sadly, by this stage, not many people even recall or are familiar with these
pillars. Aero Glass is no advancement. It's eye candy (or gown, artwork).
Various USB features aren't groundbreaking either. All of these are minor
tweaks and addons, some/many of which replace third-party (usually free)
addons that are available for Win9/MEx, Win2000, and WinXP. The foundation
of that O/S--that which developers cannot peneatrate--is merely unchanged.
In other words, Microsoft took other people's ideas (stole food out of their
months), just like Apple.
Many of Vista's features can be obtained and installed in Windows XP, visual
aspects included. Other 'features' such as DRM are Vista-only, so informed
customers won't jump on the Vista bandwagon any time soon. Not even good
security will be offered and it's finally proven. Even Joe Bloggs who reads
the daily paper will have seen the article about the exploits by the end of
this holiday season.
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