[Sussex] Improving on UNIX

[Andrew Guard]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Teale [mailto:Geoff.Teale at claybrook.co.uk]
> Sent: 14 March 2003 09:15
> To: 'sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk'
> Subject: RE: [Sussex] Improving on UNIX

> Microsoft are planning on including the SQL Server engine to present a
> filesystem for future versons their server platform _only_.  
> There has been
> much debate as to whetherer there is a genuine motivation to 
> provide BeFS
> style functionality or this is just another attempt to 
> integrate a product
> with the operating system when there is a market that they do 
> not dominate -
> look at that pattern :
> 

Once Microsoft sead that IIS would only be server products now it built in
to XP Home.  It not an active install so you run the installer from
Add/Remove programs. 

So you see a pattern here.

PS Microsoft has already made it public XBox2 would probley have such filing
system.