Quentin Clark, WinFS product unit manager for SQL Server, acknowledged Monday--in an update to his controversial blog, posted last week--that many end-user features of the much-anticipated WinFS file ...

Microsoft decided to release a test version of its next-generation file system, WinFS, well ahead of schedule. The company made the first beta of the new file system available to Microsoft Developer ...

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 ...

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 ...