WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good

[LinuxRocks]

Had to figure this was coming... They can't even deliver on software thats been in development for over 10 years; is Vista next?

http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/23/644706.aspx

[mobrien_12]

No basically they have already so overhyped Vista that to Axe it would be suicide.

What's going to happen is Vista is just going to suck, like we always thought.

[piratePenguin]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Axes_WinFS_Cancels_Beta_2/1151208143
WinFS actually sounded extremely cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

[Aloone_Jonez]

WinFS actually sounded extremely cool.

That's probably why MS decided it shouldn't be in Vista.

[piratePenguin]

That's probably why MS decided it shouldn't be in Vista.

That's probably right. I'd have a hard time believing it's too hard for them, and I can see how it would be in their interest to put things off for later releases so they extract more money from the customers, which is number one for them and would be for probably any company in that position.

[solemnwarning]

We are choosing now to take the unstructured data support and auto-admin work and deliver it in the next release of MS SQL Server, codenamed Katmai.

Do I smell a lawsuit from intel comming up?

My routers CPU (Katmai core):

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 451.032
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 897.84

[LinuxRocks]

Yeah, I saw that name too (Katmai) and thought it sounded familer