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I 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 st

I 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 ago
  Similarly 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".