Well, maybe that isn't the case, but as you remember, they did say that WinFS would not make it into Longhorn, nor would most other advancements, including security. Ok, I made the security part up, but that doesn't make it false. You'll remember the latest IE vulnerability , well I tested the latest public build of Longhorn and it isn't fixed in there. Longhorn is still beta shipping with a vulnerable version of IE and an older version of Media Player that has been replaced because of security issues.

 So, before we even get into *why* I made this post, we are looking at Longhorn, stripped bare, swiss cheese ridden as Windows XP, even though we were promised a 'rewrite' and weighing in at 4 times the memory usage sitting at idle and twice the CPU and GPU requirements. Ok, twice is being nice, but I am in a nice mood. Well, no, I am not. However, I am in my normal mood. At least it has a really cool Recycle Bin icon...

Now, for the latest “Microsoft Miracle”, not only will WinFS not make it into the Longhorn client in 2006, it won't make it into Longhorn Server in 2007 nor is it looking like it will be in the Longhorn Client refresh, and I quote, “that is scheduled to follow a couple of years later”. Meaning, a couple of years after 2006, or in Microsoft terms, 2010. So no WinFS by 2010. And for those oldies reading, you will remember that WinFS or whatever it was called at the time was first promised to us in Windows DNA and “The Millennium Project“ way back when Windows 2000 Server was still called Windows NT 5.0.

Hey Steve, guess that outsourcing to India isn't turning out as well as you expected huh?