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by jug
867 days ago
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This sounds like what Microsoft has tried but failed to do in numerous iterations for two decades: OFS (Cairo, unreleased predecessor to Windows 95), Storage+ (SQL Server 7.0), RFS (SQL Server 2000), Exchange Webstore, Outlook LIS, WinFS, and finally Microsoft Semantic Engine. All projects were either cancelled, features cut, or officially left in limbo. It's a pretty remarkable piece of Microsoft history as it has been there on the sidelines since roughly post-Windows 3.11. The reason they returned to it so often was in part because Bill Gates loved the idea of a more high level object storage that, like this, bridges the gap between files and databases. He would probably have loved this kind of technology part of Windows -- and indeed in 2013, he cited the failure of WinFS as his greatest disappointment at Microsoft, that it was ahead its time and that it would re-emerge. |
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Failing to capture any of the mobile handset market while missing out almost entirely on search and social media businesses would be higher on my list if I were in BG's shoes.