Microsoft cracked open the WinFS cone of silence last week, making beta bits of the nascent data store available to MSDN members.
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 into the initial release of either the Windows Vista client due next year, or the still-unnamed Longhorn Windows server due in 2007, said Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at the Redmond, Wash., company.
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