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People forget that Microsoft has perennially had their Cairo/Object/Whatever FileSystem in development.

• usefulcat 10y ago
  True but NTFS is also far superior to HPFS, so arguably MSFT doesn't need a replacement for NTFS nearly as badly as Apple needs a replacement for HPFS.
  • stormbrew 10y ago
    Minor nit, but HPFS was OS/2's filesystem. Apple's is HFS (and HFS+).
    • Zardoz84 10y ago
      And NTFS was based on HPFS
  • amaks 10y ago
    Also, Microsoft has been developing ReFS as a replacement for NTFS.
• Twirrim 10y ago
  WinFS, that was an interesting concept when it was first announced. I'm still curious if it has got wings or not. Maybe some day :)
  • PeCaN 10y ago
    It even worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2H4sgakIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2H4sgakIA at some point anyway. Now they're just "well, we put the ideas in SQL Server" but I still hope it comes back around. _That_ is the future of storage. ZFS/btrfs/HAMMER are all very, very cool, but WinFS was a level above that.