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Microsoft and the Web
Remember that WinFS was going to be part of Vista, then later got deferred to a subsequent Vista update? Well, it seems that Microsoft has now binned the idea of WinFS forever. It’s being rolled into SQL Server. An interesting way of sidestepping the issue that something else promised in Vista won’t make it, and diluting the promise and potential market of WinFS. Perhaps.
Robert Scoble’s post was one of those that helped publicise the news about WinFS. The comments made on the post are interesting, because people are discussing file systems, databases and more importantly Everything Online.
By ‘productizing’ the WinFS technology into SQL Server, Microsoft hopes to build on their share of the web server market, envisioning this future.
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