Vista - WinFS - Gone from Vista and now gone from futuer Windows...

"...we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the
previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working
towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and
ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."

https://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive...23/644706.aspx
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Tom Porterfield

It was a product looking for a problem and the indexing that is shipping in
vista made alot of the need obsolete. Good ridance


"Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "...we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the
> previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working
> towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and
> ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."
>
> https://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive...23/644706.aspx
> --
> Tom Porterfield

Indeed, other than instant search (which vista now provides without winfs)
the average user would see no other benefit and would no doubt be stuck
with a slower system and lots of bugs.

"Josh" <josh@nospam-windowsconnected.com> wrote in message
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> It was a product looking for a problem and the indexing that is shipping
> in vista made alot of the need obsolete. Good ridance
>
>
> "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:ctqb3i3nb7u1.dlg@tpportermvps.org...
>> "...we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the
>> previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working
>> towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and
>> ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."
>>
>> https://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive...23/644706.aspx
>> --
>> Tom Porterfield
>
>

Actually there are plenty of features unrelated to indexing which would
be provided by WinFS. Go read the published docs.

Ryan Spooner [Ryster] wrote:
> Indeed, other than instant search (which vista now provides without winfs)
> the average user would see no other benefit and would no doubt be stuck
> with a slower system and lots of bugs.
>
> "Josh" <josh@nospam-windowsconnected.com> wrote in message
> news:uNshe1zlGHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> It was a product looking for a problem and the indexing that is
>> shipping in vista made alot of the need obsolete. Good ridance
>>
>>
>> "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
>> news:ctqb3i3nb7u1.dlg@tpportermvps.org...
>>> "...we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the
>>> previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working
>>> towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and
>>> ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."
>>>
>>> https://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive...23/644706.aspx
>>> --
>>> Tom Porterfield
>>
>>
>

We aren't going to see WinFS???

That was the **ONLY** feature of Vista that I was looking for.

Putting the features into anything other than the file system itself just
won't work - I'm not running funky utilities to do the job of my file
system.


"Mike Williams" <mikew@m-v-p-s.org.null> wrote in message
news:449E350C.4030306@m-v-p-s.org.null...
>
> Actually there are plenty of features unrelated to indexing which would be
> provided by WinFS. Go read the published docs.
>
> Ryan Spooner [Ryster] wrote:
>> Indeed, other than instant search (which vista now provides without
>> winfs)
>> the average user would see no other benefit and would no doubt be stuck
>> with a slower system and lots of bugs.
>>
>> "Josh" <josh@nospam-windowsconnected.com> wrote in message
>> news:uNshe1zlGHA.748@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> It was a product looking for a problem and the indexing that is shipping
>>> in vista made alot of the need obsolete. Good ridance
>>>
>>>
>>> "Tom Porterfield" <tpporter@mvps.org> wrote in message
>>> news:ctqb3i3nb7u1.dlg@tpportermvps.org...
>>>> "...we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the
>>>> previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working
>>>> towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and
>>>> ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering."
>>>>
>>>> https://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive...23/644706.aspx
>>>> --
>>>> Tom Porterfield
>>>
>>>
>>