Retro questioning of Microsoft's cancelled WinFS context-based filesystem
Key claims
- Poster asks how Microsoft's cancelled context-based filesystem WinFS was ever supposed to work.
- Contentless inflammatory post using an ethnic slur to attack Microsoft, with no substantive claim.
- Microsoft fails to ship even a working clock app in Windows.
- Anon mocks Microsoft for being named 'micro' soft despite not making small software.
Volume over time
Peak 1 mentions/hour · 4 hourly buckets
Source threads (4)
Every thread this story was extracted from, with live and archive links so the evidence is verifiable.
- /g/109596192 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 12 replies Anon mocks Microsoft for being named 'micro' soft despite not making small software.
- /g/109590666 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 9 replies Microsoft fails to ship even a working clock app in Windows.
- /g/109568240 ↗ live · archive hostile evergreen 20 replies Contentless inflammatory post using an ethnic slur to attack Microsoft, with no substantive claim.
- /g/109557268 ↗ live · archive mocking evergreen 19 replies Poster asks how Microsoft's cancelled context-based filesystem WinFS was ever supposed to work.
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