Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop

Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by frik on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @02:00PM (#11247593)

Windows Longhorn (Vista before the development reboot) actually shipped with SQL Server Express for WinFS. Though dotNet based shell and SQL Server Express based WinFS was too slow and consumed too much CPU resources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by IshmaelYavitz on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @10:12PM (#11250646)

WinFS was too slow and consumed too much CPU resources.

I'm genuinely curious what your source is for this. From the following uncited text on Wikipedia?

"An early revision of WinFS was also included, but very little in the way of a user interface was included, and as such it appeared to early testers to be nothing more than a service that consumed large amounts of memory and processor time."

Or do you have another source?

WinFS betas were released post-Longhorn as well.

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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by frik on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:47AM (#11251178)

I tested it back then. And WinFS beta2 also on WinXP. It was really slow.

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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by yuhong on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:09PM (#11248158)

Not to mention SQL Slammer. I read that MSDE 2000 SP3 was not released until the day after it spread on the Internet.

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