Microsoft has just killed off its future storage system, most recently known as WinFS, and hyped as one of the three pillars of Windows Vista. On the WinFS Team Blog, Microsoft program manager Quentin ...

One point I made in my wish list for Windows 7 deserves repeating: Several commenters on [Sinofsky’s] initial “Welcome” post expressed hope that the WinFS file system, which was killed off during the ...

WinFS has had a turbulent history. Originally announced as one of the three “pillars” of Windows Vista—the other two being the new Windows Presentation Foundation (formerly code-named “Avalon”) user ...

Executives said the forthcoming WinFS client will align to a post Windows Vista release but they declined to specify a ship date. The WinFS file system and relational store was originally planned to ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

In writing WinFS R.I.P., my fellow ZDNet blogger Marc Orchant devotes sufficient text and linkage to what to many appears to be the death of WinFS: the supposedly revolutionary new Windows file system ...

More developers can get a look at the software at the company&s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles next week. Despite these first whiffs of information, the file system won&t make it ...

Microsoft's WinFS future storage development (note, not a file system, not a replacement for NTFS, and not really like the old Cairo idea from 1995) been killed off just when the beta 2 version -- ...

Microsoft quietly announced Friday that its long-promised next-generation universal file system is either dead or just emerging from its pupa to take wing as a butterfly. The second beta of the ...

To promote his latest annual letter, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—and, of course, founder of Microsoft—answered questions today in a reddit Ask Me Anything interview.

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is doing his first-ever Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit today. Gates started posting answers to questions promptly at 10:45 a.m. PT, as planned. From the introduction, it ...