WinFS (short for Windows Future Storage) was the code name for a canceled data storage and management system project based on relational databases, developed...

architecture codenamed Indigo, and a relational storage platform codenamed WinFS — all built on the .NET Framework; however, this proved to be untenable...

object file system. It was once planned to be implemented in the form of WinFS as part of Windows Vista but development was cancelled in June 2006, with...

in compatible applications. It was developed after the postponement of WinFS and introduced to Windows several benefits of that platform. Windows Search...

actual operating system release. Some previously announced features, such as WinFS and NGSCB, were dropped or postponed. After "Longhorn" was named Windows...

the separate release of WinFS for Windows XP and Windows Vista and will gradually incorporate the technologies developed for WinFS in other products and...

driver for Windows and Linux. Comparison of file systems Apple File System WinFS Snover, Jeffrey (1 August 2012). "Windows Server 2012 released to manufacturing...

liberation from folder hierarchies was a primary benefit and differentiator of WinFS. "We actually considered at one time not having folders. It was all going...

1996, without the object-based file system, which would later evolve into WinFS. Simultaneously with Windows 3.1's release, IBM started shipping OS/2 2...

years later while the object-based file system would later be adopted as WinFS during the development of Windows Vista). Microsoft officially demonstrated...