From: Dylan Stewart (rxs015500_at_utdallas.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 15 2003 - 14:28:11 PST
Has everyone read about the new WinFS that Microsoft is going to be
deploying in Longhorn?
http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#longhorn
"The most important feature of Longhorn is replacement of the familiar
DOS/Windows filesystem with an object database (W0). You will no longer copy
files to a floppy or CD-ROM or attach them to an email, because there will
be no files. Database records will be copied from one database to another,
probably through a .NET server. Large organizations will have their own .NET
servers, but everyone else will use one of Microsoft's, a service for which
you will pay a fee."
It sounds a lot like the Newton file system. MS is now pushing something
that Apple developed almost a decade ago. It is being hailed as a
revolutionary idea, but the Newton's file system has been forgotten. I
wonder what will happen if they actually release this. Apple would probably
have quite a case against them.
Dylan Stewart AC5ZH
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