Re:Captain Obvious to the rescue (Score 1)

The way it works is you search for rockies. You may not have photos keyworded as 'rockies', but perhaps you have an email which maybe talks about the rockies or maybe even you put it in your calendar (as I do with my trips). A search for the rockies has a time precedence as evidenced from your calendar information (and emails), so pictures dated around that timeframe may be returned with the term rockies. It's the pulling of the information all together in one data store which is the more innovative thing. Outlook doesn't know about photos - photos do not know about outlook, but they both help drive better searches. That's just an example and is fully extensible for any application to take advantage of the abilities for WinFS.