Asim 0 Posted September 7, 2005 Developers finally see tantalising bits of WinFS By Dan Neel, & Barbara Darrow 6 September 2005 10:29 AEST Microsoft cracked open the WinFS cone of silence last week, making beta bits of the nascent data store available to MSDN members. More developers can get a look at the software at the company’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week. Despite these first whiffs of information, the file system won’t make it into the initial release of either the Windows Vista client due next year, or the still-unnamed Longhorn Windows server due in 2007, said Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at the company. Even so, some testers say the early bits—which include the base file system and associated APIs—are solid and useful. “You can import files and it's there and running,†said one tester. “It knows a lot more about the files than the current NTFS [file system] because it sees the meta data. That meta data is in the store and is searchable, indexable [and] filterable,†he said. Read the full story. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
