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Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? (timemachiner.io)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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That’s not a typo. Windows 96 promised to build on the success of Windows 95, yet it never materialized as originally intended.

I only learned about this a few months ago. To me, this was an incredibly fascinating discovery and wanted to write about & share it.

"The Windows That Never Was"

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Windows Vista is Microsoft's greatest success, because it's main purpose was to make people forget the promises made for Longhorn.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I do kinda wish we had gotten WinFS. All the "ideas" of it seemed cool, just impossible to implement without breaking every existing application.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    FS?

    As in "F'ing Shit"?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Future Storage aka WinFS. It was a cool idea, metadata based relational db file system. But the execution was horrible, SQL Server based file system which was exposed via .NET IIRC.

    Desktop search was supposed to be revolutionized, but it was scrapped just before Vista was released

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If I recall, it was a new file system. So instead if folders, every file would just kind of have tags and could be dynamically grouped like that. I could very well be wrong, but I remember being excited for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can we please have a FUSE FS like this?

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