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I don't think this is it. This was a research project that was undertaken with the express knowledge that it probably wouldn't be immediately useful. It was a

by j_baker 16y ago

I don't think this is it. This was a research project that was undertaken with the express knowledge that it probably wouldn't be immediately useful. It was an attempt to see what components of an OS might be able to be moved to .Net. I'm thinking more along the lines of the "filesystem is a database" idea they had.

hga 16y ago
Well ... what was it that they did totally scrap two years into the project, restarting with a Windows Server code base? WinFS was part of the the general Longhorn set of projects, but I didn't get the impression it was inextricably linked to the Longhorn next version of Windows project.