Neowin News Feed for: Winfs

Trivia Tuesday: Microsoft's Project Cairo

Tyler Holman — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:56:33 +0000

Microsoft's Cairo project never saw the light of day, but its promose of information at your fingertips echoes down from Windows 95 to Windows 8. Learn about an OS that was far, far ahead of its time Read more...

Microsoft Scraps WinFS for Windows Vista

Steven Parker — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:54:57 +0000

Microsoft has scrapped plans for a WinFS Beta 2. Instead, elements of WinFS are being rolled into other products. Going back to the early days in the development of what is now known as Windows... Read more...

PowerUser.tv Episode 5: Halo Movie, WinFS beta and more

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 21:38:57 +0000

Neowin.net's official podcast, PowerUser.tv has posted Episode 5. This week the panel discusses the Halo movie, Sony Server Exchange, WinFS beta, eDonkey vs. Bittorrent, the .xxx domain, Beyond TV (SnapStream) vs. TiVO and more! ... Read more...

WinFS is back on Microsoft's radar screen

Brad Wardell — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:17:50 +0000

Nearly a year ago Microsoft announced that WinFS, Microsoft's next-generation file system (that is technically not a file system), would not be part of Windows Vista. Since then, Microsoft has been quiet about... Read more...

WinFS To Be Available on Windows XP

Brad Wardell — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 22:11:27 +0000

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... Read more...

WinFS StoreSpy v0.8 for the WinHEC 2004 Longhorn Build

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 20 May 2004 17:42:43 +0000

WinFS Store Spy is an Explorer-like tool to browse WinFS. It offers flexible ways for you to quickly find your stuff and navigate the store. You can inspect Item, Relationship (all 3 types), Extension, Nested... Read more...

WinOE Likely To Join Indigo, WinFS In Longhorn

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 14 May 2004 08:27:59 +0000

It's looking more like Longhorn will get key orchestration features derived from BizTalk Server. Microsoft is working on workflow and orchestration technology, called WinOE, or the Windows Orchestration Engine, for the Longhorn/Orcas timeframe, several sources... Read more...

Video: WinFS Overview

Tom Warren — Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:18:51 +0000

Quentin Clark provides an overview of WinFS, including what benefits it will produce, what it is, and how it's put together. This episode introduces you to WinFS as a basis for more detailed presentations. ... Read more...

PDC: WinFS and WinFX discussed

Brad Wardell — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:01:43 +0000

Today was day 3 of the PDC extravaganza. Based on today's Neowin chat, there seems to be some confusion over WinFS and WinFX. In short, WinFS is a file system...layer that works with... Read more...

The WinFS File System For Windows Longhorn: Faster & Smarter

Tom Warren — Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:57:44 +0000

WinFS is Destined to Supersede FAT and NTFS Around 20 years ago, Microsoft's widely used MS DOS 2.0 operating system could only handle hard drives up to 16 MB. Yet, for the... Read more...