Gadgetopia

The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter: Some good information on the upcoming WinFS for Longhorn: Microsoft is breaking new ground with Longhorn, successor to XP. The upcoming WinFS file system will be the first to be context-dependent, and promises to make long search times and wasted ...

Code Name WinFS: Revolutionary File Storage System Lets Users Search and Manage Files Based on Content: Here's a really in-depth article that peeks behind the curtain at the upcoming WinFS in Longhorn (It's so in-depth, I don't even know what to quote.) This is going to be very cool, essentially ...

Longhorn goes to pieces: WinFS is out of Longhorn. That's gotta hurt. They've been talking about this as the centerpiece of the release. Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, ...

A preview version of Longhorn — the next Windows release — has been leaked. The biggest change is the use of the new file system, WinFS. It has a database architecture where each file has a key which doesn't change regardless of where the file is on the file system. ...

640KB ought to be enough for anyone: This was published a few weeks ago, and although I was beaten over the head with references to it in my aggregator, I just got around to reading it. I don't know what to think. The first part of the article is Ray ...