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I’m now looking at the WinFS video over at Channel 9. WinFS together with the RSS support planned for Windows Vista seems to me as a major shift. Most Microsoft applications are silos which makes it really hard to extract the data (like the problems I’ve had with migrating from Outlook). But will they open up the data from now on?

Oh, and there’s the issue of open standards for Word etc, but that’s for another day.

ps. WinFS seems to be really useful for a lot of applications and it will be interesting what comes out of it. My main worry is cross-platformacy since most other platforms don’t have the same thing.