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I am old enough to remember the talk of Microsoft Cairo (successor to Chicago aka Windows 95) and the Object File System which would do a lot of this. If Micro
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
I am old enough to remember the talk of Microsoft Cairo (successor to Chicago aka Windows 95) and the Object File System which would do a lot of this.
If Microsoft at the heyday of its monopoly power could not pull off something like this, I don’t see it becoming widespread now.
- miffy900 5y agoIt would’ve been really interesting if WinFS actually was released. It had a very interesting type system. Probably would’ve been more suited for servers than desktops/clients.
- didgetmaster 5y agoI wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft could have pulled it off if they had designed the system from the ground up. Instead they tried to do it on the cheap by taking two existing systems (NTFS and SQL Server) and combine them in ways they were never designed to handle. The product was either was too slow or too fragile (or both).