WinFS: Returned to its womb?

It's the APIs, Stupid: I think you could get a clearer picture on this from John Carroll, but the best I can tell is that what's going back to MSSQLServer country is going to be the cleaned-up APIs that were shopped out for MSVista.

Apparently the metadata organization and retrieval APIs that MS currently have are more than a bit of a pain to develop to and the new ones are less so. By keeping them for the server end of things:

* MS sticks with "Developers, Developers, Developers
* They downgrade the burn they inflicted on developers who invested in WinFS.
* They maximize support for online applications (think Ray Ozzie.)

However, on this one I'd wait for John to weigh in.; Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding Posted on: 06/26/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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It's the APIs, Stupid Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/26/06

Just too bad Roger Ramjet | 06/27/06

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Is WinFS a file system Roger Ramjet | 06/27/06

There goes my upgrade... Starlyth | 06/27/06

I think you are right WinnebagoBoy | 06/27/06

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