Vista - metadata

The most fundamental attraction that Windows Vista has for me is the promise
of organisation that metadata will bring. I have been banging on about it for
a bit now, trying to get digital archives and galleries to use it, with quite
a bit of success.

However not being able to try Vista I would like to know if meta-data
actually works as yet in Vista builds, also how does it manage 'bald' file
formats like .gif, which can't have any inputted meta-data?

Thanks

att MS mods: pls del this post (i got an erro that it would not post)

thx,

samule

"Samuel" wrote:

> The most fundamental attraction that Windows Vista has for me is the promise
> of organisation that metadata will bring. I have been banging on about it for
> a bit now, trying to get digital archives and galleries to use it, with quite
> a bit of success.
>
> However not being able to try Vista I would like to know if meta-data
> actually works as yet in Vista builds, also how does it manage 'bald' file
> formats like .gif, which can't have any inputted meta-data?
>
> Thanks

Longtime known issue. Use OE or Win Mail to use the newsgroups.

"Samuel" <Samuel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> att MS mods: pls del this post (i got an erro that it would not post)
>
> thx,
>
> samule

I'm using a public computer, plus I prefer the web interface thanks.

Samuel

"Mark D. VandenBeg" wrote:

> Longtime known issue. Use OE or Win Mail to use the newsgroups.
>
> "Samuel" <Samuel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5C59057F-06D4-4F23-A101-FFBD9925B54F@microsoft.com...
> > att MS mods: pls del this post (i got an erro that it would not post)
> >
> > thx,
> >
> > samule
>
>
>

Samuel wrote:
> The most fundamental attraction that Windows Vista has for me is the promise
> of organisation that metadata will bring. I have been banging on about it for
> a bit now, trying to get digital archives and galleries to use it, with quite
> a bit of success.
>
> However not being able to try Vista I would like to know if meta-data
> actually works as yet in Vista builds, also how does it manage 'bald' file
> formats like .gif, which can't have any inputted meta-data?

Only by storing the metadata in a separate database file as for instance
Windows Media Player has to do with WAV, MIDI and other media file
formats that don't have property-bags.

The postponement and final death of WinFS means that you'll see much
less interesting metadata-handling scenarios than promised.

So what you're saying is WinFS is not going to be released, ever? I thought
it was going to be delayed. And never mind the database I thought that
meta-data in files was to be universal, indipendent of any propriety
database.

I thought that Vista would enter data into the fields available from the
file format and not its own database system, tell me MS didn't do that.

Samuel

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> Samuel wrote:
> > The most fundamental attraction that Windows Vista has for me is the promise
> > of organisation that metadata will bring. I have been banging on about it for
> > a bit now, trying to get digital archives and galleries to use it, with quite
> > a bit of success.
> >
> > However not being able to try Vista I would like to know if meta-data
> > actually works as yet in Vista builds, also how does it manage 'bald' file
> > formats like .gif, which can't have any inputted meta-data?
>
> Only by storing the metadata in a separate database file as for instance
> Windows Media Player has to do with WAV, MIDI and other media file
> formats that don't have property-bags.
>
> The postponement and final death of WinFS means that you'll see much
> less interesting metadata-handling scenarios than promised.
>