WinFS RIP 23/06/2006
Posted by: markgilbert in Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software
WinFS led a long but pointless life. 12 years in development only to die before ever being put to any use. Touted for Windows XP, then for Vista, then later as an add on for Vista, now touted as a complete waste of time.
This of course comes from the horses mouth, the WinFS development blog. From reading the blog entry it would have you believe that WinFS hasn’t turned it’s toes up, it’s simply eveolved into a different beast, when in reality the key thing to take away from the blog is that the relational database based file store for Windows is no more. Since this is what WinFS was and has always been sold to us as, then yes WinFS is well and truly worm food.
The blog entry tries to bill WinFS as a platform to help developers build on SQL Server. BullShit, WinFS was always promised by Microsoft as a part of Windows, they even went as far as to call it one of the pillars of the Longhorn OS. So does that mean that by lacking WinFS support Vista should fall flat on it’s face? I hope so.
WinFS should have changed the way data was stored by an operating system. It should have revolutionised data storage, instead the only thing it changed forever is the way we think of promising Microsoft technologies, as vapourware.
Oh well, roll on Duke Nukem Forever
Cheers
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July 18th, 2006 at 23:58 - Edit
[...] Well Microsoft put out a new build of Windows Vista today to MSDN subscribers. This build addresses some bugs and included some new drivers. Sadly this is still not the version that contains WinFS or the ghost of Elvis. Frankly I find it a little hard to get excited about Vista now. Everything they have to offer has been done before in another OS, and will likely be done better by the time Vista comes out. [...]