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Here, I'll solve the confusion (if what I've read is to be believed) and save $1700.
Today, we have the Indexing Service, which indexes content on NTFS drives. In Longhorn, this is replaced by WinFS. It indexes to an embedded, stripped down version of Yukon (SQL Server v.Next). The shell integrates a bunch of new UI goodness when you have it turned on, so you can stop thinking about "folders" when you want to find a document, and just start thinking about the things you remember about it (title? roughly when you wrote it? some words in it?).
Of course, there's a lot of time between now and release... at least 2 years, maybe as many as 4 (don't laugh, I'm being serious). It might change. It might've already changed. The person I read might've been wrong. However, just because you hear something at a PDC, doesn't mean it'll be true upon release, so I don't see how you could be much worse off believing me than believing Scoble. :)
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