> It'd be interesting to know why Microsoft abandoned this initiative. There were technical issues. They simply never managed to get the system performant enou

> It'd be interesting to know why Microsoft abandoned this initiative. There were technical issues. They simply never managed to get the system performant enough to be use as a FS replacement. There also were tons of issues with the concept itself, like proper tooling for visualising the stored objects to the user and a compatibility layer for legacy software. It seems as if parts of it was merged into MS SQL server products [0]. [0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/winfs/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/winfs/