WinFS standalone died, So what

As everyone and their brother in the development community knows, Microsoft has killed off the standalone version of WinFS for Windows.  Instead, they are going to integrate WinFS with Sql Server or something else and come out with a better product that will.........blah, blah, blah.

I honestly have to say, so what.  Personally, I am glad that they have pulled.  Have you ever used Lookout to do full-text searching in Outlook?  It is painful to see the processor on my laptop spike to 100% for hours as it tries to reindex my email.  Ever had a system run a full text index in sql server.  Thats another situation where the processor spikes to 100% for a long time (even when its setup up correctly).  Thanks, but I think I'll keep my processor.  WinFS on the desktop is probably just too much to handle for today's processors.

http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/06/29/104.aspx

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