A World Without Microsoft
The recent announcement that the WinFS project is dead has sparked a lot of commentary. One of the more insightful pieces is Microsoft Buries Cairo, Microsoft Monitor. I can still remember receiving a briefing on Cairo while I was working in Atlanta — to hear the Microsoft evangelist tell it, the Cairo “file” system (or object system) was going to revolutionise software development. That was the whole gist of Cairo, but it never came to fruition.