#Gates-Longhorn in ‘06.
Microsoft announces Longhorn will hit is 2006 target release but at a price. It will ship minus WinFS.
While a major file system overhaul should be a part of any seminal release, this is the part I find fishy:
The new file system, based on database software architecture aimed at making it easier for users to find information stored on hard drives, will be shipped later, with a test, or beta version, of WinFS shipping along with Longhorn in 2006.
…easier for users to find information stored on hard drives… ??? Call me an anal-retentive organization snob but why not just clean up after yourself and use a smart, predictable, logical system that you know and love and use on a regular basis. If you’re going to dump every document that you’ve ever written into ‘My Documents’ then perhaps you have a whole separate set of problems…
Next up!? WinCVS for all your letters-written-to-grandma needs!
here here!
August 30th, 2004 at 8:50 pm[...] UPDATE: Just now making the connection between Spotlight and this post about Longhorn. My gut says “your bias is showing” but I’m wondering which is better — building a DB-based OS or robust search application built right into the OS layer that can be reused in any application for pretty much any search purpose? [...]
November 16th, 2005 at 12:14 pm