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| Gates Explains Longhorn Delay, Diet |
| from the trial-balloons-make-good-targets dept. |
| posted by timothy on Monday August 30, @07:39 (Windows) |
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/30/0244236 |
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An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has set late 2006 as the deadline
for shipping Longhorn, but to make that date, it had to delay the full
implementation of WinFS, an ambitious file system geared at letting users
search through all of their files at once. In this [0]interview with Bill
Gates, he provides a summary of why Microsoft decided to drop WinFS,
saying: "WinFS, I'd be the first to say, is very ambitious. Nobody has
ever brought together the world of documents, media and structured
information in giving you one simple set of verbs that lets you richly
find, move around and replicate those things." Meanwhile, [1]MS Watch has
published Longhorn head-honcho Jim Allchin's memo on why some Longhorn
features had to be axed."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=04/08/30/0244236
Links:
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/0,39023769,39157671,00.htm
1.
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1640602,00.asp
