> Why would you build a complex database filesystem for searching through some > pictures and word documents, or movies and songs? The answer is: you > wouldn't. You'd do what everyone is already doing: provide a user app that > indexes important files and lets you search them. Problem solved.
That's what everyone gets wrong all the time. WinFS was/is supposed to be an object store / structured data store, using unified schemas across different applications. Data sharing is the main point of it. The metadata indexing was just a side effect of allowing storage of regular files in it. -mg
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