Windows XP may be updated to support a new file system technology that Microsoft is working on for the next version of Windows. Called WinFS, the technology promises to make it easier for users to ...

The surprise beta release of Microsoft’s WinFS file system on Monday has attracted intense scrutiny. WinFS was one of the three pillars of Microsoft’s next-generation version of Windows announced two ...

Executives said the forthcoming WinFS client will align to a post Windows Vista release but they declined to specify a ship date. The WinFS file system and relational store was originally planned to ...

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 ...

Last week, the press wires were all aglow over announcements about Longhorn, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system. There were two prongs to the news. First, Microsoft announced ...

Microsoft Corp. officials last year highlighted three new subsystems as the key pillars for the next major release of Windows — WinFS for data storage, Avalon for 3-D graphics and Indigo for building ...

Microsoft is now claiming that WinFS was not part of the Longhorn server plans presented last October at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC), where it laid out details about the next major ...