Hi Jerome-
I assure you we are going much further than ObjectSpaces. Our primary
reason for not releasing as much information sooner rather than later is
that we are focused on ensuring that we deliver on everything what we
announce, rather than leaving ourselves in a position where may promise
something and are not able to deliver on it. I'm sure most of you
understand that to be an area where Microsoft's track record has opportunity
to improve!
Having said that, for those of you who have not already perused the team
blogs at
http://blogs.msdn.mcom/winfs, it's a great place where we have
posted much content about what we are trying to build.
Cheers-
Shan
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shans@online.microsoft.com
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"Jérôme Piquot" <jerome.piquot@wolff.fr> wrote in message
news:eoQrAZkTGHA.1672@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I hope it will not be like objectspaces !
>
> A lot general information about what winfs is but very few informations on
> how to use it.
>
> Regards
>
> "Shan Sinha [MSFT]" <shans@online.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message
> de news: eyBql2gTGHA.1728@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Shan Sinha [MSFT]
>> shans@online.microsoft.com
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights
>>
>>
>> "ben" <ben@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0CFE8A53-F665-4D02-B72B-C8E983FF1238@microsoft.com...
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
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