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WinFS Beta Released

Microsoft has quietly released a beta version of WinFS, the file system originally slated to be part of Windows Vista, to MSDN subscribers. This beta release works on Windows XP and requires the .NET Framework version 2.0.

WinFS is the codename for Microsoft’s next-generation relational file system for Windows. As an essential piece of Microsoft’s Integrated Storage strategy, WinFS bridges the gap between file systems and databases and provides a unified, rich programming platform for all data: structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. With WinFS, Developers will be able to use its unified Item Data Model across applications, present new relational organization constructs for data, and create applications that exploit data more powerfully. WinFS is a development platform that will improve developer productivity and reduce organizations’ time to market. (Continue at source)



  
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