Apparently it was canceled and part of it was added to Microsoft SQL-Server 2008, and Windows 7 and other software.
I think WinFS sort of was replaced with Cloud Storage and all of the Websites that allow you to store files in the Cloud. It is why Microsoft bought out Skydrive renamed as Onedrive.
'the cloud' is associated with tagging type metadata and searching descriptions; I think that's what is being referenced.
The actual implementation of storing and searching also becomes someone else's problem. In a way it's just another slosh back and forth in the cycle of centralization and de-centralization of processing/storage.
Similarly the sloshing back and forth between predefined ontology/semantics and "deep learning". In a way, isn't Cortana attacking many of the WinFS problems from the opposite direction? Cloud first and "deep learning/AI" versus local first and "deep semantics".
I remember, having just lived through the semantic 'Core-Ontology' wars in academia, explaining to a gradually more shocked Microsoft evangelist in 2003 why WinFS would never be accepted, even with Microsoft's potential leverage behind it. That said, I have no idea if semantics where even an issue in the eventual decision to retire WinFS as the future of storage.
explaining to a gradually more shocked Microsoft evangelist in 2003 why WinFS would never be accepted, even with Microsoft's potential leverage behind it.
Why would it never be accepted? My dream is to create a similar platform.
That said, I have no idea if semantics where even an issue in the eventual decision to retire WinFS as the future of storage.
