WinFS Gets the Axe 610
commander salamander writes "Over at the WinFS Team Blog, Quentin Clark states that Microsoft no longer plans to ship WinFS as a standalone software component. Instead, portions of the underlying technology will be included with the next release of SQL Server (codename Katmai) and ADO.NET. Does this spell the end for the true relational storage paradigm that Microsoft has been promising since Windows 95?"
Perhaps... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:an amazing promise (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know, but if this has been circulating at least since NT4 days and Duke Nukem Forever comes out first - which might actually freaking happen, that tells you something.
And I don't think that something has anything to do with MS being an agile.
Re:an amazing promise (Score:4, Funny)
News Flash... (Score:5, Funny)
Next year on E3 (Score:5, Funny)
Just use spotlight (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Be (Score:3, Funny)
End of Relational storage? (Score:3, Funny)
Does this spell the end for the true relational storage paradigm that Microsoft has been promising since Windows 95?"
Absolutely not! Apple will someday invent it and Microsft will copy it.
It's because of the name! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Opposites Distract. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Be (Score:3, Funny)
I loved BeOS and all and I hate saying it, but a factory Windows install from Dell probably has more applications running in the XP system tray than the total applications that were available for BeOS.
Re:Rehash of XP (Score:4, Funny)
Who do you think is paying him?
Re:an amazing promise (Score:1, Funny)
> right hand is doing. What makes you think
> that their marketing team is any different?
>
> any better?
Yes, because if the left doesn't know what the right hand is doing, then it has no business making promises about what the right hand is doing.
sound like a bogon? (Score:5, Funny)
Undoubtedly you meant,
"It sounds as though you have been too near the bogon flux [catb.org]"
or perhaps
"you sound like a Vogon [catb.org]".
Re:Rehash of XP (Score:1, Funny)
Whose what?
Re:This is Slashdot, right? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Hard Problems and Large Corporations (Score:4, Funny)
I think Hans understands what WinFS is more than you can ever dream of.