[News] WinFS Dies (And Yet ANOTHER Feature Conceded)

[Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I won't link to MSDN, so here is the blurb (or gist):

WinFS is Dead

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| The official word from the dev team is that WinFS will no longer be
| developed as a relational filesystem, and all future betas are cancelled.
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                http://digg.com/software/WinFS_is_Dead

WinFS was set to be an abstraction layer to NTFS, so interoperability with
Linux was never a pressing issue. Hard-drive encryption in Vista is another
matter altogther...