Mike Gunderloy [mailto:MikeG1@...] wrote:

> "Starting to"? Storage+ was first preannounced as part of the "next
> version of Windows" in 1998 or thereabouts. Nobody plays the
> future-feature FUD game as well as Microsoft these days.
>
> To be fair, it's pretty impossible to tell from that Business Week
> article just what it is that's being cut.

"The current plan calls for the file system to work on PCs but not extend to
files shared over a corporate network."

That's old news since the PDC. WinFS *will* make it to the client version,
they just haven't defined their server strategy for it yet. I was out at the
MVP summit this week and asked a couple people again and they said the same
thing.

The strategy for the server side of things today is writing sync-adapters
that translate data in and out of the client WinFS store into whatever
proprietary server format you may be dealing with. So, consider a Longhorn
version of Outlook akin to today's "cached mode". Microsoft would write a
syc-adapter for MAPI that translate MAPI data structures into equivalent
WinFS structures. As that data changed, the client would resync the changes
to/from the server using the same syc-adapter.

Later,
Drew