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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: LinuxRocks on 25 June 2006, 11:19

Title: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: LinuxRocks on 25 June 2006, 11:19

Had to figure this was coming... They can't even deliver on software thats been in development for over 10 years; is Vista next?

http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/23/644706.aspx

Title: Re: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: mobrien_12 on 25 June 2006, 11:25

No basically they have already so overhyped Vista that to Axe it would be suicide.

What's going to happen is Vista is just going to suck, like we always thought.

Title: Re: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: piratePenguin on 25 June 2006, 11:42

http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft_Axes_WinFS_Cancels_Beta_2/1151208143
WinFS actually sounded extremely cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

Title: Re: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 25 June 2006, 14:26

Quote from: piratePenguin

WinFS actually sounded extremely cool.

That's probably why MS decided it shouldn't be in Vista.

Title: Re: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: piratePenguin on 25 June 2006, 15:25

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

That's probably why MS decided it shouldn't be in Vista.

That's probably right. I'd have a hard time believing it's too hard for them, and I can see how it would be in their interest to put things off for later releases so they extract more money from the customers, which is number one for them and would be for probably any company in that position.

Title: Re: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: solemnwarning on 25 June 2006, 17:05

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We are choosing now to take the unstructured data support and auto-admin work and deliver it in the next release of MS SQL Server, codenamed Katmai.

Do I smell a lawsuit from intel comming up? :P

My routers CPU (Katmai core):

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processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 7
model name      : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 451.032
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 897.84

Title: Re: WinFS Gets the Axe - For Good
Post by: LinuxRocks on 25 June 2006, 21:31

Yeah, I saw that name too (Katmai) and thought it sounded familer ;)