Hi Ben-
Thanks for your note. The Vista announcement does not affect our delivery
plans. Beta 2 continues to be planned for release later this year, as
described in my previous note. RTM plans also remain unchanged.
I hear your concern with lack of information on WinFS. I assure you that we
will continue to remain as accessible as we can via our blogs, newsgroups
and other community efforts. The idea guiding Beta 2 is that we intend for
it to be the build that developers can begin to adopt for their
applications, with a reasonable amount of assurance that they will be able
develop applications that do not become obsolete. Between Beta 1 and Beta2,
the changes we are making to the platform will be somewhat more substantial
than the changes we expect to see in builds coming beyond Beta 2.
As we mentioned in PDC, one of the big updates we will be including in Beta
2 is the integration of the ADO.NET programming interface. We will also be
updating the Item Data model. These two updates will cause some impact to
applications built with Beta 1. I'm certain that this was expected.
However, we believe that the updates we are making between Beta 1 and Beta
2 are the right ones and know that all those who adopt WinFS will benefit
from them. We continue to be interested in hearing about your experiences
with Beta 1 and about all the cool applications you are developing.
Shan
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"ben" <ben@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Have any of these dates changed since the latest vista announcement of
> possibly not shipping till 2007?
>
> I'm also glad to see some more activity on the forums...the forums have
> been
> very dead since December, the blogs haven't been updated since 12/1/05,
> and I
> was beginning to worry everyone has lost interest and winfs wasn't being
> supported anymore.
>
> We are trying to move forward with development, but without a strong
> community and some idea when beta 2 would be coming out making forward
> progress is very hard. We would hate to sink all of these development
> resources into beta 1 to find beta 2 possibly changes so much. But with
> no
> roadmap, updates via forums or blogs I am just grasping at straws of what
> may
> or may not happen.
>
> Sorry this got off track, but it seems the best place to post. Thanks
> again
> and looking forward to a reply.
>
>
> -ben
>