Ben Gilbert: belief

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…They tried it again. Did the same thing again, yeah. I think Bill Gates was a big fan of this vision because it was really technically ambitious where they had an object-oriented file system where the file system could specify data types. Then every application would plug directly into the data types that the file system knew about. There were these standards, like a calendar invites a calendar invite, and the operating system has its own fields for date and time and notes. That means you’re not always traversing directory trees whenever you’re trying to search through stuff. Also it meant that the operating system could actually reach into the data within files that were being stored by applications. It was a standard way of storing files in an easy-to-search way. And what you’re talking about here is the third pillar of Longhorn/Blackcomb, which is WinFS, right?…

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