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  • reminds me of windows 8... the real thing!

  • Microsoft's been doing pretty well recently - but either way I'd love to see this concept put into further consideration. It's a bit risky since it's totally different from the norm, but if they get it to feel natural enough I think it would be quite a hit. Thanks for posting this video mate.

  • WTF?! windows 7 not include this!

  • Херня какаето

  • xp only uses like 200 mhz , windows 7 uses 1 ghz

  • @mrjameshid So what? If you like living with an outdated PC, you can live with an outdated OS too.

  • Microsoft now owns 90+% of the OS market share, of which XP owns 51%.

  • Yeah! Czech republic! Yeah! Prague!

  • BIG BROTHER

  • Windows Vista is an utter failure. I'd love to try Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate.

  • Hahaha awesome, people in Microsoft's ads are always wearing suits and making boring faces...

  • Its not looking as good as I would think of.But who knows? could be better then Vista

  • wasn't Cairo (NT 4.0) supposed to have WinFS?

  • @dan1986ist Kinda. Cairo was the codename for 2 different OS's, a cancelled OS & NT 4.0. NT 4.0 got most of the cancelled OS's technology though. One that was missing though, was OFS. OFS was the first, (of many,) WinFS prototypes. The major difference was that OFS was an actual filesystem, (hence the, "FS,") but WinFS ran on top of NTFS, (with the, "FS," in WinFS standing for, "Future Storage," instead of, "Filesystem.")

  • @POKEMONMASTER260 Also, so people don't get confused, as WinFS was an add-on for NTFS, it itself is not a relational filesystem, but it makes NTFS one. Basically, when the video says, "WinFS the power of a relational filesystem," they mean, "WinFS the power of an NTFS add-on to make it a relational filesystem."

  • Yet another great concept that never came to fruition. Bummer, 'cause this might have been more useful than , say, jump-lists? >.>

  • Longhorn Build 4074 has a version of WinFS if you were to google for a copy to test out in virtualbox or another partition although WinFS is/was incredibly buggy and had performance issues which is why MS scrapped the idea and incorporated some of the existing, working aspects into things like SQL server, Windows Media Player, parts of Windows Live Essentials.

    Things like libraries, jump lists, search box and other parts of Windows Vista/7 were also part of WinFS.

    So it still exists, in a way.

  • Can anyone see my comments?  Because I can't.

  • test.

  • Soo...what happend to this now? was it supposed to be in win7 or what?

  • Comment part 1:

    Okay, basically, Windows 7, (back when it was in it's 1st codename, Blackcomb,) was going to be the successor to Windows XP. One of it's

  • No. It was going to be in both Vista and Windows 7, but was cancelled. There was a Beta 1 & Beta 1 Refresh version released for the costly MSDN subscription, but it was only for Windows XP SP2, & I assume SP3 also. (SP3 did not seem to be around then, so that's probably why they only say SP2, if it does work on SP3.)

  • Copy paste on steroids!

  • Fuck your proprietary MAC BS, your MAC don't have shit on my Linux box. Might I remind you, the core operating system of MAC is LINUX, yes a PC operating system is running your MAC! "Quality, Security, Fast, Beautiful, Innovation"? Only because its running on a LINUX core you ignorant MAC bastards, my LINUX desktop can be 'Themed' to look, sound, feel like ANY operating system, there are thousands of MAC OSX and WINDOWS themes, mine currently looks/sounds exactly like Windows7.

  • Might I remind you, Linux is just the kernel. Mac OS X uses a hybrid kernel (Mach/BSD). Also, the core operating system is UNIX, more specifically DARWIN. Macs can be 'themed' as well. However, part of Macs appeal is the unique UI, I didn't buy a Mac to make look like Windows7. If Linux is so great, why theme it to look like a completely different OS--a crappy one to boot.

    Macs are extremely versatile. They can run Linux programs natively using the X window system.

  • Desktop effects you want?... search youtube for "Compiz Fusion" and you'll see what LINUX can do. BTW you forgot one word "Versatile", my LINUX box will run any *NIX or windows program, this includes windows video games, all while running as my office network router/web server in the background! But wait, MAC is'nt that versatile to do all these things.

  • What LINUX cant do is run MAC programs, and why would we want to run MAC proprietary bullshit lmao. keep your piece of shit MAC and and PC slander to yourself! My LINUX box will run circles around your MAC any day, and its FREE.

  • Macs can run WINE just like Linux can >_>

  • @AjFilmProductions Macs run Windows applications natively... o.O

  • @MatheusMK3 No, they don't.

  • @AjFilmProductions They Can. And it runs better than a windows does it.

  • @MatheusMK3 roflmao :D in no way

  • fuck off with your apple/PC bullshit

  • That's more your opinion as a mac fan boy. You sound like a little dumb ass as that goes for the rest of you mac fan boys.

  • Machead description.

  • All this looks cool and all but truth is, most of it won't get implemented. It looks cool but it's not practical and not user friendly.

    I'm a Linux fanboy but I know that MS has good developers for their user interfaces. I was really impressed with how well everything was integrated in W7.

  • "All this looks cool and all but truth is, most of it won't get implemented. It looks cool but it's not practical and not user friendly. "...and you know this because you have actually used it?

  • @ Vorjay

    No, I haven't used it. But I've taken a few courses on interface design. For example, the 'Movie Picker' screen is totally useless. It gives you no information at all except for the small thumbnails. Also, there's no good reason why there are 4 piles to look through.

    Like I said, Microsoft has good interface designers. If these designs were good, you would have seen them in Vista or W7.

  • there was an awesome one that was not released called windows longhorn looked awesome

  • WinFS natively recognizes different types of data, such as picture, e-mail, document, audio, video, calendar, contact, among others; rather than just bytestreams as with file systems.

  • WinFS is a filesystem that uses metatagging instead of a hierarchy.

  • The music is very good

  • I can take it with Linux. And it's free.

  • What is the song at the beginning ?

  • Gee I am still waiting for Object File System and Storage+.

    Vaporware.

  • I like the theme used in the windows allot, why couldnt have this been the Windows 7 theme?

  • spooky music at the end X__X

  • is it true?

  • The animation is perfect

    Microsoft will be never able to regain Mac users, unless Apple quits the game. M$ has to upgrade BIOS to EFI, Register to better technology, and so further WinFS will get M$ more problems ("bugs") than any other File OS.

  • Little do you understand that MS is one of the most powerful forces on Apples board of directors. Who do you think owns the majority of Apple stock?

  • I think that Longhorn is much better that Vista and better than 7 because it had lots of new features and techologies that aren't in Vista/7...

  • LONGHORN IS VISTA. it was a codename for the OS we now call Vista... douchebag ;)

  • I know that Longhorn is vista's codename but Longhorn was way more cool that the Vista and (I think that) it was more advanced.

  • I agree, have Longhorn Reload M1 on DVD, which is based off Longhorn Build (4074). =P

  • Longhorn is an abbandoned project man, vista only has the appearance of Longhorn, and some of it's workouts, but do you know why longhorn was an abandoned project? I don't think so! And for the record: Longhorn still had the Kernel 5 version, just like XP...but Vista has Kernel 6...a new Kernel version...but that's a different story, I guess...but Vista is not Longhorn, and it'll never be...

  • And Kernel 6 SUCKS!

    Windows 7 is the finish product of what Longhorn started. Vista is an unfinished product and super-unstable, but for Microsoft fans it was the 'paradise'.

  • Kernel 6 is just the version of the service that uses the actual SIP (sistem idle process) but the system of process servicing and distributing is a little different from Kernel 5 to 6... but from 6 to 7 it is way different, because it has a more stable SIP and a much better SVC hosting program, (smaller memory dumps, and a less chance to actually get an error report, because ... less chance to get errors, amigo... and Windows 7 is the moment's OS but not the future's OS...that's Windows 8...

  • Lol fail

  • this is the perfect os

  • yeh if all you do is organise photos and muck around with contacts :L

  • I can't deny I just have to dip in to their argument for a few cents,

    1. The count for OO download is not the number of people who are actually using it. For instance, once user can download it 10 times for his computer, but still, he is just ONE user, maybe because he reformatted, bought an new computer, or updated the software.

    2. If you talk about Microsoft's monopoly, don't tell then after that Microsoft isn't forcing everyone to use Windows, you're just contradicting what you just said...

  • Name of the song please

  • This rage fest is fucking hilarious.

    Please continue

  • Behold the power of the vaporware !

  • WINFS will be a failed attempt to copy apples spotlight and HFS+ metadata features

  • This video reminds me of "Disclosure" film.

    ( watch?v=VFkyV7d5t8o&feature=re­lated )

  • searching is better than sorting, I run a search on my email, I dont sort them. How am I to remember which day or category I filed it under?

    What complete garbage. The engineers probably told their managers that WinFS was complete shit, and that's why it got canceled. I don't believe they ran out of funding to build it.

    1000's of software devs and $5 BILLION

    vs 8 apple engineers who made OSX.

    Yeah right.

  • What the hell is the video talking about?  is this WinFS really a File system ? Or an all in one application which manage your contact, appointment, ... etc ... ?!

  • It was suppose to be a server like data base filing system for you home computer, it was fast and perfect concept. But it was only a concept that failed, if it did work your computer would of been faster and all your data would have been arrange in a clean way.

  • I think WinFS already exists based on what they show in the video... But instead of being part of Windows Vista and/or Windows 7, it is part of the Windows Live products line up.

  • I think this includes both Windows Application like Messenger and Web Applications like Mail, Skydrive etc.

  • "The fate of Microsoft, and all the manufacturers of Windows-based computers may depend on it."

    Do you always come up with such foolish drama?

  • winfs is just this ---> open a notepad, type lol in it and save the text as test.txt

    now open the start menu, type lol. serach will be able to look inside your text and see the word lol, thus displaying the test.txt in the results.

    it's basically a layer that allows for special indexing which already exists inside vista and windows 7.

  • agree

  • "Next Generation OS"

    OK that sounds good.

    "FAT32 with password protection"

    :(

  • "Now, Microsoft is rapidly losing market share of the operating system market to Apple's Mac lineup, brilliant advertising campaigns, and, quite frankly, better and more reliable technology"

    Don't let anyone tell you that you're a Mac fanboy you hear!!!!

    (shakes his head and walks away)

  • Well, no one knows about market share these days. One thing we do know is that Microsoft is losing a bucket load of money.

  • WInFS means Windows Fucking Suck's..no joke.

  • WEOUAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH­A

  • "and instead put out Windows Vista, which is more or less, Windows XP, but prettier"

    With that comment you pretty much lost all credibility.

  • this is more of that business microsoft bullshit apple sucks and all but this really dosent seem like it would appeal to anyone but business people

  • 1. They are not switching to Mac, last month Mac actually lost market share

    2. WinFS is NOT cancelled, check wiki. They are still developing it and MS said they want to get it right.

  • 2. yes it is and many of the research results were implemented in SQL 2005/2008.

  • Uh, Macs? You shouldn`t fear macs. Fear Linux. Nobody has ever returned from Linux back to Windows for mysterious reasons...

  • I did and I even switched to OS X :P

  • i have returned back to windows you lier

  • i have returned from four distributions of linux back to windows. linux is just for fun... in every point..

  • Winfs is pretty much dead Microsoft is working on it since 1993.Parts of Winfs will come back in Windows seven but that will be the same as in Vista

  • WinFS is not in Windows 7.

  • This filling system never came, it was suppose to be in vista but Microsoft suck with the old.

  • If you're a daily pc user, gamer, programmer, or business man go with PC. If you're a student or grpahic designer go with Mac

  • Well then, who will made mac software if they use a PC?

  • This video is just some promotional video from MS that somebody attached some captions to. It doesn't provide any information.

    Also the video creator has a few facts wrong. Development of WinFS has nothing to do with either Vista or Win7. It was started in 2003 and shelved in 2006 when it was decided to not include it in Vista.

    Ballmer has indicated that WinFS is still under development but that is about all that has been said about it. Right now it isn't in Win7.

  • I don't think Microsoft will ever release it. In fact, they're working on it since 1990 so that's close to 20 years and they just can't come up with a solution yet.

    I think a third-party will do it first and in a much better and powerful way than Microsoft will ever do...

  • HELLO??!! Have you been sleeping? Parts of the WinFS WILL come in to Windows 7, like the library in Windows 7.

  • You're : 1 some how knows nothing about 7 or 2 an idiot. WinFS as nothing to do library in 7 and you cannot have parts of a file system.

  • The library's in Windows 7 is something that has been in the beta of WinFS.

    And WinFS is NOT an actual filesystem, it's just an addon to NFTS

  • It seem that you are really badly informed since you don't even know that WinFS was canceled 3 years ago...

  • WinFS was not an actual anything, it was vaporware.

  • You 1. counting, 2. counting some more. 3. counting is pro!

  • HELLO??!! "WinFS" was a FILESYSTEM.

    The filesystem Windows 7 uses is still NTFS.

    The filesystem known as "WinFS" was, and is, VAPORWARE.

  • WinFS was introduced in 2003 and the idea and first working on it began in 2001... i can only wonder where did you get your 1990...

  • It's because WinFS was in fact a remake of an other file system that was called OFS that was supposed to be in the Microsoft Operating System codenamed Cairo that was, also, never released.

    OFS was then canceled and replaced by to Storage+. then RFS, then Exchange Webstore (that experienced severe features cut, then Outlook LIS (features cut). It's only then that WinFS appeared but its idea came from OFS in the first place which was developed in the early 90's.

  • Isn't this Vista?

  • what's that awesome song???

  • I like Windows XP. You can go to System in Control Panel and under "advanced" options select the "best performance" option. You can also do the msconfig thingy in "run" but that's pretty advanced.

  • You can do the same thing in Windows 7, you just press the Windows key, serach performance and then you open the one that says Adjust the Appearance and Performance options.

  • Microsoft is not still developing WinFS. Development of WinFS stopped in June 2006.

  • "in November 2006 Steve Ballmer announced that WinFS was still in development, though it was not clear how the technology was to be delivered"

  • Its 2009 bud. If you still believe in vaporware like WinFS, you really are a sucker.

  • ZFS FTW!

    Go Snow Leopard

  • Snow Leopard will blow windows 7 away ... people say "ohh wow, windows 7 is soo much faster than OSX".. well, they have something coming becoz Snow Leopard will blow them away BIG TIME ...

  • yeah OKAY

  • Tch.. Fanboy.. Then stay with your apple.. No one orders you to like windows.. It's only an OS.. For me both the OS are great.. I use 4 OSes in my house.. Win 7, Vista, OS X, and Ubuntu.. And all of them gets the job done..

  • I know that all of em get the job done but OS X does it just that little bit better!

  • all OSes have plus and minuses.. Like OSX are better at graphic designing, multimedia, etc.. While PCs are best at gaming.. It's up to you to choose which OS suits you most..

  • but the only difference in speed is a matter of seconds (2 - 3 seconds faster) and what will u do with those extra 3 seconds huh?

  • sum up seconds and you get minutes, sum up minutes and you get hours, sum up hours and you get days.

    If two things get the job done with the same quality, I'll choose the one that gets it done faster.

    If I only have to do a thing once or twice, hey, who cares about a few seconds or even minutes? If I have to do it more than once or twice, if it will sum up... it changes, after the first time 3, then 6 and so on, that's not nice.

    I use Debian, Windows XP and play with Win7 by the way.

  • Wow Nice thinking.. You have a better brain than me :P .. I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu or Win 7 ;)

  • go ubuntu! ;-)

  • Ya.. But i want all my applications and games to work :(

  • Before I will switch to Windows I have a few requirements:

    Windows must run ALL my favorite Linux applications and games. Give me intelligent Package Management that wont break my system, like Linux does. Real security, like LInux; No viruses and no spyware, and no requirement that I install security software just so the OS keeps working properly. I don't want it to get slower over time. Windows must become genuine FOSS.

    Unreasonable expectations ?

    No less unreasonable than yours.

  • you masturbate on Ubuntu logo, don't you? :)

    tell me one thing - if is linux soooo greeeaaaat like you say, why it has still only 1-3% of OS share?

    nobody wants it, even for free...

  • "you masturbate on Ubuntu logo, don't you?"

    You are an idiot, as evidenced by your idiotic comment.

    "tell me one thing - if is linux soooo greeeaaaat like you say, why it has still only 1-3% of OS share?"

    Its called Monopoly you moron. Not that you'd know anything about Microsoft's continuing anti-competitive practices. Try reading the ECIS document on it.

    Microsoft's extortion of Melco group, a Microsoftie in the FCC... and that's only this week !

    You are an ignorant fool.

  • well i know sometimes the truth hurts :)

    by reasonless insulting me you are proving you are the idiot, not me.

    yea, of course, talk bullshits about microsoft's monopoly and so.... blah blah blah... MS does not force anybody to use their OS, or does he? the point is that you dont have spend weeks to setting windows to make it work and you dont have to recompile the core hundred times to make your graphic card or network card work and so on.. HW manufacturers do not support linux, not MS's thing

  • You continue to reveal nothing more than just how incredibly ignorant and poorly informed you are.

    "microsoft's monopoly"

    I work in the industry, I know how Microsoft distorts and monopolizes the marketplace.

    "MS does not force anybody to use their OS"

    Tried to buy a notebook or netbook with Linux on it lately ?

  • what? i have bought 4 notebooks till now and no one had preinstalled OEM OS (in fact they had FreeDOS, because i think there is some issue that notebooks must be sold with an OEM OS, but FreeDOS was here for 1 CZK and it's purpose was just to fill that OEM issue).

    maybe you are buying from a wrong seller..

  • Oh wow FreeDOS ! What joy... Isn't that just what we all want... not.

    And of course, you didn't answer the question.

  • i never tried to buy a notebook with linux because i do not want linux in my notebook.

    you obviously missed the point (no surprise for me).

    the FreeDOS was there only for one reason - to fullfill the need of selling notebooks with preinstalled OS. of course i formatted it immediately and installed windows on it, which i have as a retail cd.

  • You really haven't installed a good Linux distribution in many years have you.

    2003 called, they want their FUD back.

  • i had Mandrake, Mandriva, Debian, Korora and Slax. i still have Mandriva 2009 on a secondary computer.

  • You can go to distrowatch if you like and rattle of some more names. Doesn't mean you're truthful though.

  • exactly.. what purpose has a computer with totally and absolutely safe and virusfree and perfectly engineered OS, when you cannot run apps and games on that?

    and those wanna-be linux variation of software like Photoshop, Nero, Office etc. are just ridiculous

  • I have plenty of games and apps... I guess you completely missed my original point.

    Almost no Linux users use Nero because most use K3b or Braserro (because they are better). And of course being a complete ignoramus, you don't even realise Nero is available for Linux.

    You can run Photoshop on Linux... The GIMP is an excellent app for those who don't need Photoshop.

    Office ? Very few people actually have a specific *need* for MS-Office. That's why OpenOffice is so popular.

  • hey, i have linux, i tried four distribs and tried many of linux software. so do not tell me that K3b is better than Nero. well it is available for lin now, but it wasn't when i needed it (few years ago).

    GIMP is the biggest crap i have ever seen. it's interface sucks and you just CANNOT do with it same things as simple as you can in Photoshop.

    OpenOffice popular? :-D you made me laugh, kid.

    you are just ignorant fanatical linux fan. it is like religion for you, so you do not consider facts

  • "so do not tell me that K3b is better than Nero"

    It is. If Nero is so good, why aren't Linux users using it ?

  • they are not using it because they are linux fanatics and never tried nero. and, of course, nero is paid software, so they cannot afford it :)

  • I'm really not sure why you have such a hard on for Nero. Most Windows users don't think much of it, let alone Linux users who don't like trialware that isn't as good as what they're already using.

  • "well it is available for lin now, but it wasn't when i needed it (few years ago)"

    K3b has been available for years. You never needed Nero at all.

  • "GIMP is the biggest crap..."

    If you don't like The GIMP, use Photoshop then...

  • "OpenOffice popular? :-D you made me laugh, kid."

    More than 100 million downloads and counting is not popular ? Makes you laugh does it ? Hmm ok then. (These figures are available from the OpenOffice website).

    They do not of course include Linux distributions which come with OpenOffice already installed.

    93.5% of OpenOffice downloaders are Windows users.

    Keep laughing... "kid"...

  • openoffice is terrible. i had so many problems with it.

    one of them - try to open a webpage in a browser, select all, copy and paste into office write. it looks terrible, it flows over the write's page's border and so on... and now, do it in MS word. it looks almost the same as the original webpage.

    and i am used to loads of tools and function MS office 2007 has and i it really helps with working and spares time.

  • I'm not surprised you had problems with it, you seem to have problems with basic facts as well.

  • :)) that is your way you argue? telling nonsensical bullshit?

    i bet you are single and you live alone, because i think noone can take it with you..

  • There's nothing nonsensical about it. You don't do your homework before shooting your mouth off and end up looking like an idiot. You are one, this much is well established.

  • well have you noticed something? you insulted me with nasty words many times, while i did not that even once. so tell me who is more adult here?

    and, if you are trying to piss me off, i have to disappoint you. someone brainless like you don't have a chance to do that

  • This is coming from someone who's very first comment to me was a trolling insult that mentioned something about masturbation...

    Fail.

  • it was not an insult, but you have obviously no sense of humour at all.

    and i also think i wasn't that far from the truth, was i? :)

  • and your numbers 93.5% are win users... where did you get that?

    and if it really is true, it is caused because in linux distribs the openoffice is already included, so linux users do not have to download it, so it is logical that win users make biggest percentual share. and they download it not because it is better than MS office, but because it is free

  • Where did I get the numbers ? From the OpenOffice website, which I mentioned already. And the numbers are downloads only, they do not and cannot include Linux distributions, which OpenOffice doesn't keep track of. I mentioned this already as well...

    OpenOffice is popular, what a surprise, you don't like that. Too bad.

    Perhaps if I tell you Firefox is popular you'll laugh at that idea as well...

  • i think i explained those numbers you well, if you read it.

    yes, OO is popular for it's zero cost. it is like that. if you cannot afford a card, you buy a bicycle. :)

    Firefox is popular, yes. mostly for 13-17 years old teenagers, because "firefox is just cool and who doesn't have it, is not cool".

    but if you are advanced (= lazy and you require comfort) user, you will something with more functions and capabilities.

  • You "explained" nothing. You made a comment that made no sense based upon figures you didn't bother read and didn't know about previously.

    Next, you're attempting to shift the argument from simply a point made about its popularity to your opinion about its quality (which is purely your subjective opinion). That is a logical fallacy.

    And your comment about Firefox is up there with the most stupid and idiotic comments you have made yet. And also sidesteps the point... again...

  • "you are just ignorant fanatical linux fan. it is like religion for you, so you do not consider facts"

    Ah yes of course, I must be an ignorant fanatical linux fan... an unsurprising attack considering your previous comments. You haven't smartened up at all.

    And judging by your extremely ignorant and uninformed comments, I would suggest that it is you who does not have much use for facts.

    If I were you I'd quit before I made a bigger idiot of myself.

  • if you are really 37years old, you have to be retarded or something, because you act like a 13yo teenager.

    you insult me just because i hit the nail on it's head and tell the truth, that linux is useless for most PC users and windows are way better in their versatility and all best software is made for win.

    your logic is - you don't like my linux, you are an idiot. ok. i am an idiot like the 93% of PC users who use windows. you are the only right.

  • "you act like a 13yo teenager"

    Perhaps you should read back on your own comments and consider the hilarious irony of your own words.

    "i hit the nail on it's head and tell the truth"

    In your own little dream world that's so very 2001.

    "linux is useless for most PC users"

    Another fallacy.

    "all best software is made for win"

    Another fallacy.

    "your logic is - you don't like my linux, you are an idiot."

    No, you are an idiot because you cant even visit a website to check some figures.

  • well i think it depends on the point of view. from my POV, irony is in your words. also agression and stupidity.

    well :) if it is all fallacy, tell me then why overwhelming majority of PC users use windows and not linux, even it is for free.

    oh yes, it is because of the Big Bad Microsoft, right? he denies people using linux and he orders HW manufacturers to not support linux. it is absolutely clear to me now.

    arguing with you is like arguing with a fanatical christian

  • lol u r fag

  • A PC is not an OS.

  • Oh no, that storm cat or whatever is called is going to suck.. just like every version of OSX..

  • I've used Ubuntu.. and i must say it's a great OS .. and that which is been given for free.. I thought i lost Photoshop.. But GIMP is awesome.. maybe a point better than photoshop

  • Oh no ! You said Ubuntu is good ! And you said GIMP is good as well !

    The Windows Luddites will be out with torches to burn you at the stake now ! ;)

  • i have windows seven beta build 7000 but it doesnt have that program

  • It's not a program but it is the file system type that the OS is using.

  • so it's like FAT, FAT32, NTFS and so on?!

    probably thats why they say Windows 7 is faster than Vista ..it's a new approach

  • Yup

  • But, windows 7 is using ntfs. WinFS is maybe going to be relased in the final version of windows 7. Microsoft is still developing it.

  • intresting, thanks

    hmm, anyways i like my OS fast ...no matter the file system

    ...did you here that MS? ;))

  • I think they did because last thing I heard is that they are releasing Windows 7. Running it right now and it's uber fast.

  • I instaled it too

    ...running a crap PC ..1600 duron, fx5200, 1G memory and it;s faster than VIsta...and I had Aero enabled (after driver update) but for optimal performance a better CPU and graphic card is recommended.

    i'm experimenting with ubuntu...its super probably the fastest but it has lots of filesystems..have to research more

    cheers :)

  • A fast OS with a creaky old filesystem that can't deliver for modern needs = a crappy OS (unless of course you have an Intel i7 processor, in which case even the worst pile of shite can appear fast... and you can bet your bunnies Microsoft is counting on that).

  • Win FS would suck. Unless you are an event manager I don't see how you could use that technology.

    Most people want to just get online and check their email, edit a couple pictures, movies, share DVDs, etc. My Grandmother won't be able to figure this WinFS shit out, and if she can't do it, then its not simple enough to be practical.

  • WinFS (if it existed) would indeed suck. But semantic technology itself does not suck, its great. And you can't understand how it makes everyday computing easier unless you're using a system that has it (like a Linux system with KDE 4.x with Nepomuk etc). Semantic technology is backend stuff: Your grandmother doesn't have to figure it out, its there to make your desktop more intelligent for grandma. :)

  • Windows Longhorn lol

  • WinFS is just another con job from Microsoft and you fell for it. Haha! I guess you still believe in Santa Claus and Microsoft Surface aswell?

  • ive seen demos of the beta version. ... its just the same as Vista man, with some basic features which could easily be programmed to be added to Vista. not interested in windows 7 atm. looks like it'll be like what 2000 was to 98.