Hello!
"Aaron Sanders" <AaronSanders@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EB90D2F2-2613-4C83-A639-1BA1263C5591@microsoft.com...
> WinFS is dead was supposed to be a relational filesystem for desktops and
> then servers, and since it is no longer included in Vista or being continued
> as a stand-alone product, it is dead. Rolling some of the technologies into
> the next SQL Server doesn't change that. As someone on Digg said, if they
> cancelled Vista and rolled the changes into XP as another service pack, you
> wouldn't start calling XP Vista. You would say that Vista is dead and XP was
> on SP3.
>
So this newsgroup is dead, too ...
http://www.trimmail.com/news/elsewhe...1151350089.25/ Quote:
QC: It's been nearly a year since I wrote my entry about WinFS Beta1, but rest assured, we have been working furiously since then.
Translation: I keep forgetting to announce that we've figured out how to kill WinFS.
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006...ed-internally/
[quote - comment #44 by Karim]
The light flickered, went out, plunging the room into
inky darkness.
Suddenly, a shot rang out.
The lights came back on.
WinFS was in the middle of the room, lying face down
in a pool of its own blood.
A woman screamed. The murmuring crowd instinctively
recoiled in horror, backing away from the corpse.
The double doors flew open. A man strode into the room,
and locked the doors behind him. "I must ask everyone
to remain the room," he exclaimed. "Someone here has
committed a murder."
"Who the f-k are you?" asked Tetra.
"My name is Inspector Scoble," he said, doffing his
deerstalker hat. With his other hand, he lifted a
Meerschaum pipe to his lips, and puffed vigorously.
"Surely I'm not a suspect," Cody said. "I don't even
use Windows. I'm a Linux troll!"
"You might have had the motive, but I do not consider
you a suspect," Scoble said. "I believe. THE WEB killed
WinFS."
A weighty silence hung in the air.
"That is the stupidest f-king g-damned thing I've ever
heard in my f-king life," replied Tetra. "You've said some
amazingly stupid bulls-t, but that just takes the f-king cake."
Scoble lit a wooden match and relighted his pipe. "It
sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays," he said.
"Your hypothesis is nothing but wild speculation," said
Christopher Coulter. "I bet all the other Police Inspectors
think you're a retard."
"The web couldn't have killed WinFS," said Brian Shapiro.
"It was a trendy thing to say a few years back - the Web
killed this, the Web killed that - but the reality is that
desktop file systems are still with us today."
"WinFS wasn't a file system," said a pedant in the back.
Dare Obasanjo crossed the room to a crystal decanter of
spirits, uncorked it, and poured a crystal tumbler to the rim.
"WinFS had a lot of. shall we say. 'health issues.'" He
raised the tumbler to his lips and sipped.
The crowd stared at him.
"Not cryptic enough?" asked Dare, taking another sip.
"Saying the Web killed WinFS is just stupid," said John Welsh.
"It's something you'd expect from Inspector Clouseau."
A small, wet cough emanated from the body on the floor.
The crowd gasped. WinFS stirred.
"I. I. can't believe you're all so angry at Inspector Scoble
and his theory. instead of being angry at. the one who
pulled the trigger."
Scoble sprang to the center of the room, and knelt next to
WinFS. "Who shot you, WinFS? Who pulled the trigger?"
WinFS made an effort to speak, but could only murmur.
Scoble leaned in closely, placing his ear next to the whispered
words.
"I see," Scoble said to WinFS. "Well why don't your
developers just put that on their blogs? Why the mystery?"
WinFS coughed, a bright red sputter of arterial blood appearing
on its lips. and smiled.
The smile was frozen on its face, as the WinFS process terminated.
Shishir Mehrotra stepped forward and raised his hands delicately.
"Do not think of this as the death of WinFS," he said to the crowd.
"For this is merely part of the coding cycle. No code ever truly dies.
It merely appears in another form."
A woman sobbed quietly.
"The soul of WinFS will appear in other products," Shishir
continued. "One day, you may see a database, or an application,
or a tree structure, its leaves and nodes glittering in its memory
space, and you will know: truly, that is the soul of WinFS, reborn
into another product experience, part of the greater Data Platform
Vision."
The crowd pondered his words.
"That is the biggest f-king piece of bulls-t I've ever f-king heard in
my whole f-king life," said Tetra.
Scoble grinned wryly and puffed on his pipe.
[/quote - Comment by Karim - June 26, 2006 @ 9:28 am]
Cheers, Roman