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Gates: Longhorn in 2006, without WinFS

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WMD:
http://it.slashdot.org/it/04/08/28/1339259.shtml?tid=201&tid=109&tid=218

The vaporware begins...

Laukev7:
Hahahaha. And Mac OS X will already have a similar feature with the release of Tiger!

Shows how far behind Microsoft is.

bedouin:
Not to mention BeOS had BeFS years ago.  The engineers who worked on BeFS are now at Apple, so the OS X implementation of filesystem metadata should be cool.  WinFS, from what I understand, isn't even at the filesystem level; it's just a glorified database.

[ August 28, 2004: Message edited by: bedouin ]

WMD:

quote:Originally posted by bedouin:
WinFS, from what I understand, isn't even at the filesystem level; it's just a glorified database.
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Right.  It's an SQL-based layer on top of NTFS.

And hopefully, Linux will have it when ReiserFS 4 becomes the norm.  :cool:

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