What Happened to WinFS
Do you remember the first days of Longhorn? when we first heard about WinFX there were
three parts (Indego, Avalon and WinFS) and then by time Indego became Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Avalon became Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and suddenly we stop hearing about WinFS !!!!
I tried to find out why or what happened to this project and I found an answer here on
Rindin Herd blogs, if you read what he said, you'll find it somehow not logical, because he says that the whole Idea about putting the WinFS on hold for the next version of windows (Vista) is to make the shipping more recent, but this is totally different than the reality, because WinFX (or dot net 3.0) now has some components that we didn't know about in the first days like Windows Workflow (WF) and Windows Card Space (WCS) or (previously known as Inforcard), so the problem doesn't seem to be the shipping time because they could add more components to WinFX !!!!
Also the shipping date has been postponed several times already, so they had enough time to added IF they want to...
I don't say that the reason in not the truth but it seems to be half the truth.