More bad news from MS. I read this over the weekend but didn’t feel the urge to write about it sooner… So here it is: Word has gotten out that Microsoft has offically killed the WinFS (Windows Future Storage) file system as a separate component in Vista! Man, they must be sweating over there in Redmond! I could go on about the fact that this is a good decision because you don’t wanna deliver bad software and all, but come on guys… This is getting pathetic.
Microsoft has been working on WinFS for a decade or so and back in …read more

As we know MS is trying hard to ship Windows Vista this year, but they have to keep looking forward! That’s why the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna. CNET News.com has an interesting article aboout Vienna:
Vienna, once labeled Blackcomb, is the new code name for the successor to Vista. It is not clear when Vienna might ship or what features it might contain. Microsoft confirmed the name change on Friday, but declined to comment on Vienna’s stage of development … There are several features that were pulled out of Vista that could conceivably …read more

Tom Rizzo of Microsoft’s WinFS team blogs the early release of WinFS Beta 1. WinFS is a relational file system that can store documents, email messages, photos and multimedia files, plus structured data from applications in a common way.
“There are some exciting things with this beta including Windows XP support. The end game for WinFS stays the same which is that WinFS will be in beta when Windows Vista ships. You’ll learn a lot more about WinFS at PDC [Professional Developers Conference],” said Rizzo.
So, WinFS will not be a part of the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, when …read more