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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS http://superuser.com/questions/11346/what-happened-to-winfs http://superuser.com/questi
by orionblastar 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
http://superuser.com/questions/11346/what-happened-to-winfs http://superuser.com/questions/11346/what-happened-to-winfs
Apparently it was canceled and part of it was added to Microsoft SQL-Server 2008, and Windows 7 and other software.
I think WinFS sort of was replaced with Cloud Storage and all of the Websites that allow you to store files in the Cloud. It is why Microsoft bought out Skydrive renamed as Onedrive.
- WalterGR 10y agoI think WinFS sort of was replaced with Cloud Storage and all of the Websites that allow you to store files in the Cloud. How so? The point of WinFS was to store an object graph representing your data in a DB. It was more or less antithetical to files. (Disclaimer: I was on the WinFS team.)
- mjevans 10y ago'the cloud' is associated with tagging type metadata and searching descriptions; I think that's what is being referenced. The actual implementation of storing and searching also becomes someone else's problem. In a way it's just another slosh back and forth in the cycle of centralization and de-centralization of processing/storage.
- WorldMaker 10y agoSimilarly the sloshing back and forth between predefined ontology/semantics and "deep learning". In a way, isn't Cortana attacking many of the WinFS problems from the opposite direction? Cloud first and "deep learning/AI" versus local first and "deep semantics".