The Windows That Never Was | TimeMachiner // Presented by Aaron Crocco
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That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it.

“The Windows That Never Was”

    • megabyteX@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      Future Storage aka WinFS. It was a cool idea, metadata based relational db file system. But the execution was horrible, SQL Server based file system which was exposed via .NET IIRC.

      Desktop search was supposed to be revolutionized, but it was scrapped just before Vista was released

    • rigatti@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      If I recall, it was a new file system. So instead if folders, every file would just kind of have tags and could be dynamically grouped like that. I could very well be wrong, but I remember being excited for it.