While no one knows for sure when, how, and if Microsoft's next generation file system technology will manifest itself, Microsoft officials do plan to bring WinFS in some form to Windows XP.
Just as Microsoft is currently doing with it's next-gen display technology, Avalon, WinFS apparently will be able to be used by Windows XP users as well.
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Just as Microsoft is currently doing with it's next-gen display technology, Avalon, WinFS apparently will be able to be used by Windows XP users as well.
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From a user’s point of view XP will continue to be XP, but it will magically be able to run applications that are designed for Longhorn.
I think this is a great idea. Longhorn has a lot of really neat new application features and APIs that I am really looking forward to seeing used in mainstream applications. In the past the features of a new OS were not used until it was many years old and had full market penetration. Now Windows XP will have full WinFX support, so developers will not have to wait until Windows XP has been replaced, they will just need to say they request Service Pack 3/4 which ever adds WinFX.
If you guys want to see what the Linux guys are doing with regards to desktop search and stuff check this project out:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
The Mac community keeps telling us PC users to throw our PC's in the Skip, and Go Buy a Mac. I have a better idea; Release a version of MacOS X for the x86 platform, and then we'll try it.
Source please, when you make these kind of statements
Also, I haven't seen many *huge* things going on besides these, and it would be interesting to hear about these as well, if you or anyone else know of them. Please skip the obvious one though (the UI / Aero).
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Aero doesn't interest me, I am more interested in features like new printing sub system, new driver model, new command console etc. Looks don't bother me much.
Heres a few documents to look through
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/driver/ldk/default.mspx
Although I'll likely skip the boring parts; as mostly an end-user of Longhorn and no driver developer, the details of the particular driver model doesn't say much to me.
If it's to help XP developers use the technologies, and to make Longhorn apps work on XP, what would then be cut down? I mean; they need enough features in the backported versions to make the Longhorn apps work, and that seems to say they must be pretty full fledged. It's hard to give XP users some severly cut down technologies and still have Longhorn stuff work on it, right? And again, I haven't seen any official word from Microsoft about cutting down any backported technologies..
I agree the new command console looks interesting though, although I doubt I'll use it much.
Also, it says "it will bring it in some form to xp" which means not full out.
It will give you a feel for what it is but not the full experience i'm sure
Harrrr'
But, if I cant get that, I am happy w/ this
OK you've made an assertion, but do you have anything to support it?
NTFS was *based* on the HPFS file system used in OS/2. It's a self-repairing file system, with support for Encryption and Compression on the fly, as well as native support for File Permissions. And, like Ext3, it's a Journalising File System, keeping logs of all write operations to revert back to the previous state of a file.
Compare this to FAT, FAT32, HPFS, Ext2, and even Ext3. Unless you want case-sensitive file systems a la Unix, with no space character support... NTFS is the best choice.
WinFS, as has already been pointed out, is laid on top of NTFS. It's designed to cross-link all NTFS Master File Table Entries in an SQL database, based on MS's next-gen Yukon SQL technology. The idea is a faster, more flexible search system (as well as the ability to display the file contents on-the-fly, as an extension to what XP already does with Thumbnails).
Just a small mistake there. NTFS can be set to be case sensitive too
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
I can see this feature existed in the original NTFS v1.3, but does it still exist in NTFS v3.1?
I certainly hope so; that's just dumb.
It will probably come in the same form as avalon; a download on microsoft.com
This means that it may have more features in Longhorn and wouldn't really take away from the hype too much.
Am I wrong?
Check out here:Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP
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