so, what exactly was WinFS? from what little i know on this topic after learning about it recently it was a cancelled 2000s attempt by Microsoft to create a fully relational method of accessing and searching for files in Windows based on metadata? a lot of the stuff i can find on it seems rather dense though. i find this interesting because even today a lot of these ideas still aren't really a thing. i mean i guess you have Al image tagging or searching by metadata but this sounds like it was a lot more ambitious and interesting by trying to leverage how NT worked under the hood? I guess I'm just wondering why nothing similar has ever came to fruition since from my limited knowledge at least and why it failed. sounds like it just became quiet vaporware everyone forgot about
>>108755773they were collecting dataafter WinFS prepare your data in compact form for "searching" and "indexing"data small enough to be sent somewhere
>>108756965i mean yeah probably, it’s microsoft. there’s a lot of interesting ideas though that end up dying out or under corporate control or both
