Hi,

I wish to say WinFS is a really great structure imho. I've searched to find more info on it and came upon this http://www.ntfs.com/ There is some really useful data there, you can give it a glance.

The fact is they are still at least initially releasing Vista without WinFS. This will mean that Vista really won't have any major new technologies besides interface changes. It really makes me wonder what the **** they have been working on for 5 years.

It also seems that WinFS won't really be any better than ext3, which has existed for years. Microsoft spends so much time talking about innovation, that they forget to actually innovate. Microsoft is always saying opensource is bad for innovation, but ext3 is opensource.

I've tried Windows Vista and I am not very impressed. It is a bit prittier than Windows XP, and I really like tabbed browsing in IE (something Opera and opensource Mozilla have had for some time), but that's about all I notice, besides many of my programs not working. I realize it is beta, so I can't really make any final judgement, but I hope Microsoft cleans it up alot by the time it goes gold.

Actually, beta 1 of the WinFS file systems was released/announced just today. If you hav an MSDN subscription, it is available for download on he subscriber download page.

And yes, I did read today that they intend to at least have it as an add-on for Vista Server about 2007. I think they also mentioned earlier O/S's, but for the life of me, I can not find that article I read not more than 6 hours ago! But personally I wouldn't count on a feature requiring such a fundamental change to the infrastructure being available for 2003 or XP.

Man I need better indexing - then mayb I could find my articles AFTER I read them :-p