Microsoft releases test version of WinFS

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"Microsoft Corp. on Monday released the test version of WinFS well ahead of schedule, according to the company.

The newly-released beta 1 edition of WinFS is a relational file system that can store documents, E-mail messages, photos and multimedia files, and structured data from applications in a common way.

WinFS will not be a part of the next version of Windows, Windows Vista, when it ships at the end of next year, but will be available to the operating system as an add-on release sometime in 2007, says Quentin Clark, director of program management for WinFS at Microsoft. "

At Xinhua Online