Remember WinFS? The all-powerful, all-encompassing unified file system for Longhorn? It's back.
Well, kind of. On Monday, Microsoft made available beta 1 of the subsystem to MSDN members and will make the same code available to attendees of its Professional Developers Conference 2005 in Los Angeles next month.
There was, however, no new news on timing of the final release. WinFS will still not make it into initial shipments of the Longhorn, or Windows Vista client next year, or the Vista Server in 2007, said Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at Microsoft.
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