Windows XP may be updated to support a new file system technology that Microsoft is working on for the next version of Windows. Called WinFS, the technology promises to make it easier for users to ...

A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today’s Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to ...

Quentin Clark, WinFS product unit manager for SQL Server, acknowledged Monday--in an update to his controversial blog, posted last week--that many end-user features of the much-anticipated WinFS file ...

Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than Windows. Quentin Clark, who runs the WinFS program management team, disclosed the ...

Microsoft decided to release a test version of its next-generation file system, WinFS, well ahead of schedule. The company made the first beta of the new file system available to Microsoft Developer ...

Last week, the press wires were all aglow over announcements about Longhorn, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system. There were two prongs to the news. First, Microsoft announced ...

Well, kind of. On Monday, Microsoft made available beta 1 of the subsystem to MSDN members and will make the same code available to attendees of its Professional Developers Conference 2005 in Los ...

Microsoft surprised developers on Monday by releasing a test version of a new Windows file system. The company made the test version of the system, called WinFS, available to Microsoft Developer ...

Microsoft Corp. officials last year highlighted three new subsystems as the key pillars for the next major release of Windows — WinFS for data storage, Avalon for 3-D graphics and Indigo for building ...

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