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by James Robertson.
Original Post: Not everyone is all agog over Longhorn
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Let's look at this diagram of Longhorn. Focus on the lower third of the diagram, the part in white labelled "Base Operating System Services", but excluding the part in "CLR". That part, which represents about 1/3 of the whole diagram, is what Windows NT is today. That means in the next three years the size of Windows is going to triple. This does not sound like a good idea. It's taken MS years just to beat the lower third into shape, and it's still less stable and more bug ridden than linux. Now they're going to triple it in size?
and then this on the WinFS file system:
Now assume (incorrectly) that you were real careful and went back and entered meta-data for the 20GB of your special files. You know the ones, the same files that you have not been annotating with meta-data over the past 5 years. What are you going to use WinFS for? Why to search for pictures of granny or for old documents. That's it. Just search. Why all the fuss over meta-data? What you really want is Google for the desktop. All the meta-data in the world isn't going to find the mis-filed final revision of your marriage proposal titled "Untitled7.doc" sitting in "c:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Microsoft\Office", yet a simple text search for "poem love marriage" will likely turn up all 7 revisions.
While I hadn't put my finger on it, that's pretty much what I had rumbling around my head on WinFS...
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