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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The changes discussed so far are all the visible ones, and I'm curious to see what changes MS may make on the system level.
On that line, one of the most interesting possibilities was one MS was rumored to be working on for the development code named Longhorn, which became Vista. MS was reported to be thinking about a whole new file system, moving away from NTFS and using a model derived from SQL Server. It reminded me a bit of Pick OS, which included a relational database and programming language (Pick BASIC) as part of the core OS, not a layered product.
I'm just as happy MS didn't do it, but it would have been fascinating if they had.
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Dennis
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Microsoft has been interested in a relational file system since the Cairo Days.
http://www.zdnet.com/bill-gates-bigg...fs-7000011136/
They revisited the technology during Longhorn and more recently. The verdict, so far, is that the hardware (especially hard drives) is not there yet. (It didn't help that the project management was a tad...confused...)
But with SSDs evolving, the day is coming. It will be very useful as they roll out more of their natural language technologies into production. But the efforts they put into the work were not wasted: the Cairo era work fed into Exchange Server and the Longhorn effort fed into Sharepoint, two tidy little billion-dollar businesses in their own right.
Oh, and over at ZDNET they think the real revolution in Windows 10 is in how MS has evolved their workflow to produce and maintain it. There is a reason they are saying it will be the "last" version of Windows.
http://www.zdnet.com/why-microsofts-...ry-7000034147/