No matter how MS tries to spin the death of WinFS, it's dead. Done. History.
http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/23/644706.aspx
In my opinion, this quote sums it up best-- regarding the attempted Microsoft spin on the demise of WinFS:
"Read McLaws’ whole post, because his major point is that WinFS was supposed to be a relational file system, not these two ancillary features. Touting the fact that you found these features in WinFS and are slapping them on SQL Server is rather like picking through a fast food dumpster and marveling that you found 2 French fries."
http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/23/644706.aspx
In my opinion, this quote sums it up best-- regarding the attempted Microsoft spin on the demise of WinFS:
"Read McLaws’ whole post, because his major point is that WinFS was supposed to be a relational file system, not these two ancillary features. Touting the fact that you found these features in WinFS and are slapping them on SQL Server is rather like picking through a fast food dumpster and marveling that you found 2 French fries."