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by didgetmaster 1233 days ago
I wonder if Microsoft's Bing/Edge/ChatGPT integration will go any better than its attempt to marry NTFS and SQL Server (i.e. WinFS)? Spoiler: that didn't go as planned!
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Was there any technological issue? Or was it just that developers didn't want to use it?
Microsoft never really revealed the 'real reasons' why it was canceled; so most people are left to speculate. My personal take is they decided it would become a tech-support nightmare to talk regular users through fixing a problem if the underlying database had an issue.

Here is an article from 2006: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/jun/29/insideit....