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		julienfr112 on Feb 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programmer's critique of missing structure of oper... Microsoft had a project to make the FS a database. It failed, didn't it ?

arethuza on Feb 19, 2020 [–]

WinFS - it had some interesting ideas although I can see why it was abandoned:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

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