WinFS is the Duke Nukem Forever of filesystems. Too bad, might have actually been a compelling reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
WinFS is the Duke Nukem Forever of filesystems. Too bad, might have actually been a compelling reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
You mean the Duke Nukem Forever of file systems? Duke Nukem 3D was out a long time ago.
I was going to make a joke about the Amazon-listed release date of December 2nd, 2005… but to be perfectly honest DNF has been held back so long that all jokes about it have become old and lifeless. That’s how long this has been going on.
O, and shouldn’t you be using a Mac? 🙂
Whoops, I did get the name wrong. Thanks for the catch.
I saw this alpha build of Longhorn the other day. It is so cr*ppy and so much like XP that I’m glad to stick to SuSE.
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/longhorn_alpha.asp
It seems to me more like Longhorn will be the Daikatana of operating systems. Considering that they’re not going to be including WinFS or Avalon (slightly old link), the only one of the “pillars” that’s still left is Indigo, which is apparently a way of integrating the “Web Services architecture” into the OS. This sounds not only pretty useless, but downright dangerous.
So Microsoft doesn’t really seem to be providing a compelling reason why a prospective buyer would want to switch from XP right at the moment…
The comparison with Daikatana probably really fits better here. Here there is IMO still a chance the WinFS will be released eventually *g* I’m not really up to date with what will make it into Longhorn and what not, but when I read the last news – or actually the last news I read … – about Longhorn it looked to me like a deja-vu … WinME anyone? Wasn’t the successor to Longhorn to be released just one or one and a half year after Longhorn itself?
On Linux, the guys at Novell are implementing a WinFS-like program (called Beagle) without many problems. It indexes the data on your computer, and you can send queries to it, looking for a specific text in your files.