Windows Vista is now delayed until 2Q 2006 according to Microsoft. Now the questions on some forums have cropped this up. Why not add WinFS features back into Vista ? Sounds good ? Well for one thing, it will be good since it will make the Windows Files System much more resilient like JFS or Ext3 on Linux/Unix Machines.WinFS, or Windows Future Storage, was originally slated to sit atop NTFS and track metadata for all files on a system to improve organizing, searching and sharing of information. Applications could also store data directly in WinFS, which is based on Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 technology.
Despite all of the initial fanfare at PDC 2003, however, WinFS was shelved last year as Microsoft cut back features to ensure its next version of Windows would launch on schedule. In March, rumors swirled that WinFS would be back-ported to Windows XP, seemingly a reversal of prior plans.
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