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• tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I do kinda wish we had gotten WinFS. All the “ideas” of it seemed cool, just impossible to implement without breaking every existing application.

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  • LWD@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If Windows is (was) good at anything, it’s maintaining backwards compatibility for longer than anyone expects them to. Never mind revolutionizing their entire file system, Windows 11 is still backwards-compatible with batch files written before we had folders.

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  • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    FS?

    As in “F’ing Shit”?

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    • megabyteX@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Future Storage aka WinFS. It was a cool idea, metadata based relational db file system. But the execution was horrible, SQL Server based file system which was exposed via .NET IIRC.

      Desktop search was supposed to be revolutionized, but it was scrapped just before Vista was released

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    • rigatti@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I recall, it was a new file system. So instead if folders, every file would just kind of have tags and could be dynamically grouped like that. I could very well be wrong, but I remember being excited for it.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Can we please have a FUSE FS like this?

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• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Longhorn… the hype was strong with that one. I don’t even remember what the hype was about, just that Longhorn was supposed to be amazing.

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