WinFS coming to Windows XP
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The WinFS Files: Understanding WinFS by
Exploring the WinFS Type System
The WinFS Files: Understanding WinFS by
Exploring the WinFS Type System
07/17/2004 06:44 AMThis column explores the type system used when programming the WinFS
platform. Sample code shows you how to work with the WinFS type system
using the WinFS API.
WinFS Removal a Window of OpportunityThe
decision to axe WinFS from Longhorn
gives Microsoft the opportunity t
WinFS Removal a Window of OpportunityThe
decision to axe WinFS from Longhorn
gives Microsoft the opportunity t
09/19/2004 11:09 PMeWeek Sep 20 2004 3:21AM GMT
Avalon, WinFS decoupled for Windows
Shorthorn
Avalon, WinFS decoupled for Windows
Shorthorn
08/31/2004 12:02 PMCue 'out-of-band add-on packs'
Windows coming to a car near you
Windows coming to a car near you
07/19/2004 11:44 AMWindows XP SP2 Coming Soon (PC World)
Windows XP SP2 Coming Soon (PC World)
07/12/2004 07:28 AMPC World - Microsoft says the long-awaited update will be finished
next month.
Windows XP SP2 Coming in August
Windows XP SP2 Coming in August
07/13/2004 08:42 AM“Windows XP Service Pack 2, arguably Microsoft’s biggest
service pack yet and the company’s most important security
project since the Trustworthy Computing initiative, will be released
in August, the company announced Monday. ‘We are on track to
RTM [Release to Manufacturing] Service Pack 2 in August,’ a
Microsoft spokesperson said. The spokesperson declined to be more
specific on whether Microsoft was aiming for early, mid- or late
August.”
Mac applets coming soon to Windows
Mac applets coming soon to Windows
12/16/2003 08:54 PMCNET Dec 16 2003 8:23PM ET
Mac Applets Coming Soon To Windows
Mac Applets Coming Soon To Windows
12/16/2003 11:05 PMA Web site that offers desktop applets for the Macintosh desktop is
gearing up to provide similar gadgets for Windows. By Paul Festa (CNET
News.com via MyAppleMenu)
Apple widgets coming to Windows
Apple widgets coming to Windows
12/17/2003 05:00 AMZDNet UK Dec 17 2003 4:15AM ET
New Windows Mobile Section Coming
New Windows Mobile Section Coming
07/22/2004 11:08 AMWe are going to be launching a new Windows Mobile section in the next
couple of weeks, it will cover both Pocket PC's as well as the
Microsoft Smartphone range which is avaliable in various places. We
are looking for any tips you have that you want to send in, as well as
looking for Background images for Smartphones Home screens (they need
to be in 176x200 format and as a JPG) so if you want to send any in -
mail them to me
Byron
Hinson.
Coming Soon: Virtual PC for Mac with
Windows XP Professional
Coming Soon: Virtual PC for Mac with
Windows XP Professional
05/18/2004 01:30 PMVirtual PC for Mac with Windows XP Professional lets you easily run
Windows-based applications on your OS X-based Mac. Enhanced features
include better graphics-handling and faster boot time, allowing
software programs to launch and run more smoothly.
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is coming
Windows XP Service Pack 2 is coming
11/03/2003 09:33 PMMicrosoft has outlined what the major improvements are going to be for
XP Service Pack 2 [Microsoft]...
Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming
Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming
08/05/2004 03:12 AMSan Jose Mercury News Aug 5 2004 7:54AM GMT
CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red
Hat Linux coming
CPU-based security for Windows XP, Red
Hat Linux coming
06/07/2004 05:34 PMMicrosoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and the next version of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 will support new CPU-based security protections
designed to stop incoming malicious executable code from being
triggered.
Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming
(AP)
Microsoft Windows Security Update Coming
(AP)
08/05/2004 03:42 AMAP - Microsoft Corp. is close to releasing the biggest update ever for
the Windows operating system, aiming to plug holes that have led to
massive security problems for computer users the world over.
Security Lockdown Wizard Coming to
Windows 2003 in SP1
Security Lockdown Wizard Coming to
Windows 2003 in SP1
11/04/2003 05:58 PMNews: Missing Sync for Windows Mobile
coming soon
News: Missing Sync for Windows Mobile
coming soon
04/05/2005 09:28 AMMark/Space Inc. announced Tuesday the forthcoming release of Missing
Sync for Windows Mobile, an update coming this June that will replace
its Missing Sync for Pocket PC product. The software lets Macintosh
computers synchronize data with Pocket PCs and Windows Mobile
Smartphones, including the Audiovox SMT5600, Orange SPVC C500,, i-Mate
SP3i and Motorola MPx220.
Free Agent: Freedom Is Coming to a
Windows Box Near You (PC World)
Free Agent: Freedom Is Coming to a
Windows Box Near You (PC World)
06/25/2004 03:43 AMPC World - Who said that Free Software is just for Linux users?
Hosted Windows Apps Coming Online with
Linux
Hosted Windows Apps Coming Online with
Linux
02/24/2003 09:11 AMCodeweavers, whose CrossOver Office allows users to run Microsoft
Office apps on Linux, is teaming with Tarantella to allow the software
to deliver the Microsoft Office suite over the Internet.
What? They cut WinFS??
What? They cut WinFS??
04/14/2004 02:35 PMThanks, eldoen. There has been a great deal of hubub about what
Jay Greene’s BusinessWeek article means for Longhorn, and WinFS in
particular. I’ve been surprised by the general silence on MS blogs
on this topic – which is perhaps an indication that I ought to be
careful myself ;) But let me throw caution to the wind and get to the
punch line: I, from my vantage as a Longhorn Evangelist, haven’t
seen any changes that significantly impact anything we’ve said at
PDC, or since, about the WinFX platform. You won't see me editing my
slides, changing my talking points, or cutting back my demos, because
the message about WinFX's capabilities hasn't changed.
rdf vs WinFS - Part I
rdf vs WinFS - Part I
06/09/2004 05:54 AMI've been waiting for this battle to ensue. I was struck
with how rdf-like WinFS was. Pure triples.
They've
also elevated media, messages and people & groups -a s first order
objects. This shit is coolio. No matter what you say -
Longhorn is finely crafted, serious work.
Now Danny Ayers takes on Jon Udell on anumber of
issues..... here we go.
Jon Udell is looking at Microsoft’s Longhorn and is skeptical about the benefits
of WinFS. Apart from talking of lock-in, he essentially argues that
the same kind of things can be achieved with the newer XML
technologies, in particular XPath 2.0 and XQuery.
Jeremy Mazner <
STRONG>responds to Jon’s
comments. I was pleased to see that he suggests (as a response to the
lock-in allegation) that the metadata of WinFS will be exposed, which
should enable nice interop with RDF systems.
I remarked on the similarity between Microsoft’s WinFS and
RDF the other day (I misinterpreted some bits, but
was corrected in comments, if anything reinforcing the parallel).
Reading Jeremy’s material is quite weird, because most of the
time you could just replace ‘WinFS’ with ‘RDF’ and
it fits perfectly. He talks of finding music files - an area where RDF
technologies are already active, c.f. MusicBrainz. He also has a lovely event scenario that fits
like a glove to RDFCalendar work.
There are folks from the open source community who see a need for a
completely open alternative to Longhorn, for example parts of Leo’s “Semantic
Desktop” plan maps nicely onto WinFS.
I don’t personally think Microsoft can sustain a lock-in
against Semantic Web technologies, with XAML, WinFS or anything else,
any more than IE gave them control of the current web. In fact, if you
can get at the data, then WinFS will probably be just as good for the
future web as any open alternative. Having both is even better.
One angle that I think SemWeb folks need to address is how RDF
technologies are still useful when you have XQuery. I’ve had a
long-running exchange over what RDF/OWL can offer with Dare Obasanjo.
I’m not as familiar with XQuery as I should be, so I’ve not
got very far.
Dare also comments on the Udell piece,
pointing to three things that he sees as potential issues with WinFS:
performance, security and sucky programming model. Parallel universe.
In the FOAF world, the first and last have been highlighted recently
with PHP support for RDF, and security has been a discussion point for
a while.
Dare’s final point about the Jon/Jeremy exchange is:
“He is asking why couldn’t WinFS be based on XML instead
of being an object oriented database.“.
I’m not sure
how OO you’d call WinFS, but whatever, I’d like a good
answer to : why RDF and not XQuery + XML DB?
Although Jon holds the record for has in the past talkinged
most about a semantic web without mentioning Semantic Web
technologies, he lets it slip a little today - his Google search box
is on the keywords “rdf
semweb winfs“
This post should make a good googlepot for that, so can somebody
point to a good RDF vs. XQuery FAQ?
PS. I completely missed a second post from Jon Udell
specifically on WinFS and semantics. He quotes a beaut from Dare:
Being that one could consider RDF as just a logical model layered
on top of an XML document (e.g. RDF/XML) I find it hard to understand
how viewing some XML document through RDF colored glasses buys one so
much more understanding of the data.
Exactly because it gives you a logical layer!
XML on its
own provides absolutely zero machine understanding of the data
beyond a bunch of character strings. [Raw]
:-)
No WinFS for Longhorn
No WinFS for Longhorn
08/28/2004 09:33 AMMicrosoft did, indeed, cut WinFS from Longhorn (both client and
server). At least Avalon is still in there.
No More WinFS in Longhorn
No More WinFS in Longhorn
05/14/2004 08:55 PMLonghorn goes to
pieces: WinFS is out of Longhorn. That's gotta hurt. They've
been talking about this as the centerpiece of the release.
Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of
Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place
until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows
server development, told CNET News.com.
The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system
that Microsoft says will make it easier for users to find data such as
documents, e-mail messages and multimedia files — no matter what
their format — on local PCs and across the network.
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Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP
Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP
03/14/2005 04:04 PMOK, I am going to surprise many of you out there and give Microsoft
the benefit of the doubt regarding the statement that they are
re-thinking the release of WinFS for XP. Why? Think about it? Redoing
an OS with a whole new file system midstream? That is just borrowing
trouble! Still, I would encourage them to make the move for Longhorn
at least as NTFS is really getting old….
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Microsoft's New WinFS Gets the PDC Buzz
Microsoft's New WinFS Gets the PDC Buzz
10/29/2003 11:24 AMAmid the 'firehose' of information coming at them about new tools and
products at PDC, developers are talking about implications of search
with the new WinFS system in Longhorn.
Good Article About WinFS
Good Article About WinFS
01/22/2004 02:26 AMCode Name WinFS: Revolutionary File Storage System Lets
Users Search and Manage Files Based on Content: Here's a really
in-depth article that peeks behind the curtain at the upcoming WinFS
in Longhorn (It's so in-depth, I don't even know what to quote.)
This is going to be very cool, essentially separating files and
folders — files don't reside in folders as much as
they're assigned to them. They can be assigned to more than
one, and can appear anywhere in the folder tree, even if you "slice"
your taxonomy multiple ways.
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longhorn loses WinFS
longhorn loses WinFS
05/14/2004 07:24 PMperhaps microsoft will never actually get to Cairo
PDC: WinFS and WinFX discussed
PDC: WinFS and WinFX discussed
10/29/2003 09:23 PMLonghorn, WinFS still just out of reach
Longhorn, WinFS still just out of reach
09/08/2004 05:34 AMLast 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 that
really, definitely, it’s-a-done-deal, Longhorn will ship in 2006.
Secondly, to make the ship date, Longhorn features would be cut -
especially the much-heralded new file system, WinFS.
Tagging and WinFS in the Enterprise
Tagging and WinFS in the Enterprise
03/30/2005 09:00 PM
Tagging is useful at personal level for categorizing data of any
size and type without
the constrain of hierarchy. While WinFS is more than this,
adding tagging to
traditional file system will deliver most of the benefits WinFS
offers at the user
experience level.
But IMHO the real power of tagging can be hatched only at
the workgroup level.
This means introducing new ways (UI-wise) to expose and discover
tags others use with
the same level of ease as children learn new words.
Video: WinFS Overview
Video: WinFS Overview
12/13/2003 10:29 AMA Developer's Perspective on WinFS, part
2 of 2
A Developer's Perspective on WinFS, part
2 of 2
07/23/2004 07:42 PMWinFS makes searching and manipulating WinFS objects very
straightforward. Learn how to specify a very simple syntax for most
cases, but also how the WinFS API supports a rich search syntax to
perform complicated searches.
Microsoft won't ship WinFS with Longhorn
Microsoft won't ship WinFS with Longhorn
08/27/2004 05:20 PMMicrosoft today announced a significant change in plans for the next
major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The new WinFS storage
subsystem will not be part of it, as had been previously planned.
Highlights of the WinFS Data Access API
Highlights of the WinFS Data Access API
04/25/2004 08:34 PMMike Deem provides a quick look at the basic concepts of the WinFS
data access API: objects based on schemas, powerful query support, and
support for WinFS concepts such as relationships.
Questions about Longhorn, part 1: WinFS
Questions about Longhorn, part 1: WinFS
06/02/2004 01:38 PM
Over the next few days I want to explore a series of questions about
the "pillars" of Longhorn -- WinFS, Avalon, and Indigo. Last fall,
when this stuff was first announced, I reacted with an entry entitled
Replace
and Defend. I argued then that Longhorn reinvents quite a few
wheels. Nobody can blame Microsoft for seeking new ways to keep
customers locked into its Windows franchise. That's a business
strategy that every rational player must pursue, in one way or
another. In chapter 6 of
Information Rules, entitled
Managing Lock-In, Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian write:
The great fortunes of the information age lie in the hands of
companies that have successfully established proprietary architectures
that are used by a large installed base of locked-in customers. And
many of the biggest headaches of the information age are visited upon
companies that are locked into information systems that are inferior,
orphaned, or monopolistically supplied.
There's no question that Longhorn aims for lock-in -- it has to. But
what is the nature of the bargain that's being offered? What kinds of
benefits will it yield? And what kinds of headaches will accompany
those benefits?
...David Stutz on Platforms and WinFS
David Stutz on Platforms and WinFS
04/09/2004 04:10 PMDavid
Stutz: "Because of this, although I agree with many of Ray's
observations, I disagree with his predicted outcome. Rather than
becoming the basis for a powerful network driven by the commodity
exchange of schematized XML data, WinFS is more likely to be just one
more in a string of proprietary Microsoft extensibility
mechanisms."
A very interesting essay. Much depends upon whether you or
not you believe developers will embrace this new platform "in the
absence of commodity (replaceable) implementations". Indeed, one
of the most significant (and voluminous) criticisms I received
privately after writing my essay relates to the increasing version
fragmentation of the Windows installed base itself - particularly
between corporate and consumer PCs. Regardless of a given
platform innovation's merits, will or would ISVs take deep
advantage of an OS innovation that will only reach a subset of the
installed base for a very, very long time? Or have we now
transitioned to a world in which there is a sustainable advantage
for redistributable commodity middleware versions of "good
enough" solutions? Although "Windows bundling" used to
represent a surefire way to create a de facto systems-level standard
e.g. MAPI, might new Windows innovations be ultimately less
utilized/leveraged than commodity middleware, given the increasing
fragmentation of the market?
WinFS delayed even beyond Longhorn
Server
WinFS delayed even beyond Longhorn
Server
12/19/2004 03:46 PMWinFS has been delayed again, possibly four or more years from now, as
Server BP Bob Muglia says WinFS won't accompany Longhorn Server.
Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans
WinFS
Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans
WinFS
08/28/2004 11:15 AMSlashdot Aug 28 2004 3:38PM GMT
WinOE Likely To Join Indigo, WinFS In
Longhorn
WinOE Likely To Join Indigo, WinFS In
Longhorn
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