Long-shoe-horn.
I find it odd that Microsoft is basically bashing Mac OS X and yet at the same time copying it and taking until 2006 to do it.
Weaksauce.
In addition to the underlying WinFS technology, Microsoft is also adding a new file system concept called Libraries, which will organize like collections of data in Longhorn, regardless of where they are physically stored in the system. For example, a Photos & Movies Library would collect links to every digital photo and digital video on your system.
“I should not care about location when I save,” says Microsoft VP Chris Jones. “Why can’t I just click on my computer and it shows me my documents? It is a computer. It should know what a document is, what I have edited and annotated, what I have searched for before, and what other places I have looked for documents. It is not just documents on my computer I am looking for. It is documents I care about.”
Now, is it just me or do “Libraries” sound like iTunes, iPhoto, iCal, New Finder, Playlists, etc…
Also, the usability/searchability comment is almost word for word what Steve already said a couple years ago.
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wouldna thought of it that way. but also, it sounds much like Piles, the rumored, copyrighted feature that was suppoed to be in Panther but didn’t make the cut for one reason or another.