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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by oxymoron on Friday September 25, 2020 @06:34AM (#24588425)
I stuck with Windows 2000 for many years after XP was released. XP brought absolutely nothing I wanted and a lot of things I didn’t want. All the truly interesting stuff, like WinFS, never made it in.
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Re:Windows XP source code has leaked by boulos on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:11PM (#24609790)
WinFS wasn’t destined for Windows 2000 nor XP, but rather Vista.

I was an intern at Microsoft in 2004, and personally helped make it clear that WinFS also wasn’t ready anyway. Fwiw, I think the iOS model of “makes users and apps no longer care about directories” has been more successful than the original WinFS plan of “maybe it’s all a SQL-ish database instead”.

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