No WinFS For LongHorn

The Microsoft Watch site (a good one I might add) reported that Redmond announced that it is cutting some of its planned Longhorn features in order to get the desktop version of the product out the door by 2006. The Windows File System (WinFS) — technology that was set to simplify information storage and retrieval — won't make it into the final, shipping versions of Longhorn client, company officials confirmed. WinFS also won't be part of Longhorn server, the server complement of Longhorn that is still due out in 2007, as Microsoft announced earlier this year.

Company officials said they were not sure when and via what version of Windows Microsoft ultimately will make WinFS available. Microsoft has talked about Blackcomb versions of Windows as the next major follow-ons to Longhorn. But they aren't expected to ship until the end of this decade. The full article is here:
http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040906RN-WinFS

And here is a full interview with Gates, going into the nitty gritty:http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=040906RN-Gates

 

 

I just received this in an email, and thought I'd share it.

Oh Kona0197, I wish I could afford a new motherboard, but I currently am stuck with my M830L aka K7S5A. It is now known to have weird "quirks". Such as booting up and It cannot find the first hard drive and boots into Win98(my second hard drive). The second is sometimes it loses the CMOS (the batteries are good!). The third and my favorite is ....The Date is Jan 1, 1601 !!! It is quite the time traveler.

Luckily, a company helped me with an updated bios so the situation only occurs once a month now. It's like a lottery at our house to see when it will misbehave and how!!!

But seriously, I have a chronic illness and disability doesn't pay much, not to mention how much my medicines cost. So getting my motherboard last as long as possible is what I strive for.

Back to the Thread! I myself would recommend NTFS for everybody that is just using XP. I keep Win98 for certain games, that I cannot get to run on XP(yes, I tried compatiablity mode) and one other application that cannot play nice with XP. I believe NTFS is a more stable file system and recovers slight faster with less file fragmentation. In Win98 I defrag about every month, with XP it is about every 4-5months.

Thanks Kona0197. You should recieve it.

When you installed the drive, did you use the 80wire, 40pin connector that came with it or an older cable that is the 40wire connector? Also double check your Bios settings to make sure that the UDMA modes are set to the faster setting. Also what exactly was the second parameter on the stop error?
STOP 0x000000ED (0x aaaaaaaa ,0x bbbbbbbb ,0x cccccccc ,0x dddddddd ) UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

The Oxbbbbbbbb one. If it Ox C0000032, then the file system is also damaged.
My guess is the ide cable is the incorrect or damaged one and it damaged the file system(NTFS) for XP. I believe the hard drive is fine.

The cable sounds like that might have been the problem. I didn't know the IDE cable could damage a file system. Yikes!
I might just try that again this weekend. Thanks Ladysarajane.
(I didn't write the numbers down on the stop error.)

OK.

Seems ok, actually.