the corner office

A number of blogs I follow have mentioned the WinFS is dead story (no links; if you haven't read about it yet, I think it's quite likely that as soon as the IT news sites get into the new week, you're going to).

I feel sorry for the people behind WinFS, because I have no doubt that the WinFS project was finally scuppered by marketing and business pressures pulling everything in all the wrong directions, and if the smart techies behind it had been free to do their thing, some pretty awesome stuff would eventually have surfaced.