Windows and their innovation

["Adam Lang" <aalang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a log snippet from a friend I was talking to on AIM.

Zwiebel 85: oh well
Zwiebel 85: you see the new WinFS
RaiderAdam1977: no clue what it even is
Zwiebel 85: Windows Future Storage
Zwiebel 85: will be part of the next version of windows (longhorn)
Zwiebel 85: pretty slick
RaiderAdam1977: oh
Zwiebel 85: basically they are taking Yukon (next SQL) and using the
database as the file structure instead of NTFS or FAT
RaiderAdam1977: I think i heard about it a year or so ago
RaiderAdam1977: when they were workign on it
Zwiebel 85: so you can do file searches using phrases
Zwiebel 85: it's not in Longhorn yet
Zwiebel 85: but a new version of longhorn leaked out yesterday
Zwiebel 85: and there are some screenshots and shit of it
RaiderAdam1977: hmm
RaiderAdam1977: microsoft is behind the game by 10 years
Zwiebel 85: how you figure
RaiderAdam1977: ok
Zwiebel 85: ok dont give me that oracle BS
RaiderAdam1977: you have a file system driven by a database engine
RaiderAdam1977: you start gearing application development around ASP and
thin client conecting via a browser
RaiderAdam1977: so all the processign is on the servers
RaiderAdam1977: omg!
RaiderAdam1977: You have an AS/400!
Zwiebel 85: haha yea ok but
Zwiebel 85: look at all those advanced graphical interfaces the AS/400
churns out
RaiderAdam1977: well, granted 10 years ago you didn't have the tech to
handle that .. hence the 5250 protocol
Zwiebel 85: you see what Longhorn supports now?
RaiderAdam1977: but you can do it with webserver trunnign on as/400 and java
RaiderAdam1977: no
Zwiebel 85: GUI driven off of 3d accelerator
RaiderAdam1977: haha
Zwiebel 85: hilarious
RaiderAdam1977: Like Macintosh!
Zwiebel 85: !