Remember WinFS – Windows Future Storage? Once upon a time, this was a planned radical enhancement to the Windows file system that was going to be part of Vista. It turned out to be far too ambitious, far too Microsoft-centric, and far too slow to see the light of day; but the basic idea was sound. NTFS is a good file system, but it just doesn’t let administrators and users describe files in adequate detail and with sufficient flexibility. As the number and type of files on our servers continues to increase, we need better tools to manage those files.
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