Longhorn and Windows Future Storage (WinFS)

Cnet has this interesting short look at how Longhorn will be implementing the new Yukon-based storage system.

Imagine a Windows operating system that makes the physical location of your files irrelevant. Imagine that, regardless of where you save a file, you can search for it, find it, and open it from any location on your computer--so that anytime you need to organize, access, or otherwise manage any file on your system, it's all just one viewing pane away.

That's the concept we see in early builds of Windows Longhorn, the OS Microsoft says will merge all flavors of Windows XP, and, more importantly, overhaul the Windows file system for the first time since Windows NT.

But we just got used to NTFS

Based on a look at a recent alpha build that leaked onto the Net, the benefits of Microsoft's new file system, called Windows Future Storage, are starting to emerge (even though the current build doesn't use WinFS, as it's known, as its native file system). WinFS is based on the next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, and will replace the old FAT and NTFS of previous versions.

News source: C|Net