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Coming from Linux, you would think "new file system" would mean that: a new file system. But its just the same smoke and mirrors Microsoft did when they scrapp
by revelation 14y ago
Coming from Linux, you would think "new file system" would mean that: a new file system.
But its just the same smoke and mirrors Microsoft did when they scrapped WinFS: add magic folders, terrible ideas (translated folder names?) and missing hard features (links) in a limited fashion.
Thats sad, because the file system could certainly do with a complete makeover: metadata, builtin sync with the cloud, backup and encryption as a first-class citizen, etc. etc.
For now, thats only available in enterprise solutions like ZFS or in the still very alpha btrfs.
- Lewisham 14y agoMy feeling is that Microsoft is much closer to a post-files world than Apple is. Apple thinks files should stay within the app, which is exactly the opposite of why we had consumer-viewable file systems in the first place. We want/need to be able to edit files in different programs. Windows 8's Contracts, combined with system-wide Share, and storing everything on Skydrive (so when you log in to another Windows 8 machine with your Live ID, it's all there) is a much more rounded vision for a post-file world, one where you have documents which are shared around, rather than opening apps then pointing at files.
- shock3naw 14y agoAnd once uploaded, Microsoft will inspect your files and ban/suspend you from SkyDrive, Hotmail, Xbox Live, and the Marketplace if they don't like something. [http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-may-lose-your-microsoft-life/ http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...]