by Saurabh
2. September 2005 15:26
Its probably old news to some. Paul Thurrot made an exclusive report on the latest timelines of Windows Vista, Longhorn Server, WinFS & SQL Server 2005 on the 29th of August. The timelines were a surprise for people mostly because its a very aggressive timeline, Microsoft is now planning to release Vista Beta 2 on Dec.7th far ahead of the last known timeline of March 2006.
But the biggest surprise came from Microsoft when it became known that Microsoft had released Beta 1 of WinFS on Aug. 28th. Forgotten ever since in late August of 2004 when Microsoft revealed that "Longhorn" had been retooled for a 2006 release and that it would not include WinFS (which Microsoft had declared to be one of the 3 pillers of Longhorn in the 2003 PDC) as it became known at that time that WinFS will be available not before Longhorn Server then slated for a 2007 release. This instantly led most people to think that WinFS was, as Paul has put in his preview of WINFS Beta 1; a "Pie in the sky". No one was expecting to hear anything on WinFS in this year when this surprise came in.
Although available only to Windows xp (not even Beta 1 of Vista™), the technology is currently not appealing to the general user. It seems bloated at the moment, obviously because it runs as a system service on top of .NET 2. I still have great expectations from this technology. And I believe by the time it will finally appear our hardwares will make it appear to run without any performance loss.
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