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Microsoft Corp. on Monday released the test version of WinFS well ahead of schedule, according to the company.
The newly-released beta 1 edition of WinFS is a relational file system that can store documents, E-mail messages, photos and multimedia files, and structured data from applications in a common way.
WinFS will not be a part of the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, when it ships at the end of next year, but will be available to the operating system as an add-on release sometime in 2007, says Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at Microsoft.
Microsoft is putting a lot of care into WinFS because the file system will drive Windows for a whole new generation of users, he says. "As a file system technology, it's important we get it right."
Over time, Microsoft plans to migrate the databases inside its own applications, such as Outlook, to WinFS. "Long term, we believe apps that contain their own data silos will be retooled for WinFS," Clark says. "Beta 1 is really the first step." Enditem
(Agencies)
The newly-released beta 1 edition of WinFS is a relational file system that can store documents, E-mail messages, photos and multimedia files, and structured data from applications in a common way.
WinFS will not be a part of the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, when it ships at the end of next year, but will be available to the operating system as an add-on release sometime in 2007, says Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at Microsoft.
Microsoft is putting a lot of care into WinFS because the file system will drive Windows for a whole new generation of users, he says. "As a file system technology, it's important we get it right."
Over time, Microsoft plans to migrate the databases inside its own applications, such as Outlook, to WinFS. "Long term, we believe apps that contain their own data silos will be retooled for WinFS," Clark says. "Beta 1 is really the first step." Enditem
(Agencies)
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