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Old 06-27-2006   #7 (permalink)
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Re: is winfs really dead? i dont think so

roman modic wrote:

> http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006...ed-internally/
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> Shishir Mehrotra of the WinFS team wrote me and other bloggers who are talking about this internally and said my theory is wrong and
> that WinFS hasn't died at all, but is actually being rolled into SQL Server and a new project that's under development.
>


This is /so/ silly. Having the functionality built into the operating
system, or requiring the user to buy SQL Server -- isn't that a slight
change of paradigm? WinFS, as it was planned, could have been such a
catalyst for /great/ interoperative applications. When it's limited to
SQL Server users, the market and the possibilities are so much more limited.

WinFS, as a concept, is dead. I really wished they had at least the
decency to say so. This (quote) "super-excited" announcement of Quentin
Clark's only adds insult to injury.