Gail Shaw wrote:

> 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.

...says our resident MVP. ;-)

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