A new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today’s Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to recent reports, the new file system will arrive with Microsoft’s next operating system, code-named Longhorn. In an e-mail to TechNewsWorld, Microsoft said it is “too early to talk about Longhorn,” but the Redmond, Washington-based software company expects to reveal more about the next-generation Windows operating system at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles later this month.
New WinFS File System Key to Microsoft’s Longhorn
Posted by: Jay Lyman October 14, 2003 02:55 PMA new file storage system designed to be backward compatible with today’s Windows machines but also to move data-storage technology forward has been a long time coming from Microsoft. According to recent reports, the new file system will arrive with Microsoft’s next operating system, code-named Longhorn. In an e-mail to TechNewsWorld, Microsoft said it is “too early to talk about Longhorn,” but the Redmond, Washington-based software company expects to reveal more about the next-generation Windows operating system at the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles later this month.