"Chambers" <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote in message
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> Besides which, some of the features just weren't good ideas.  I mean,
> making the entire file system a relational database?  IIRC, they didn't
> drop that one because of implementation problems, but because in
> practice it sucked.

From what I heard from one of the devs some time back, was that WinFS was
dropped because the feature set they were given was too ambitious. Instead
of starting small and building on that, the project was scoped to do
everything at once. It was taking too long and producing too little and got
scrapped.

It was more a failure of management than of technology.

Wasn't a complete loss. Several of the senior devs got folded into the SQL
Server dev team and contributed to enhancements of the SQL storage engine,
including the FileStream feature.

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