Microsoft delays Longhorn desktop search
1 September 2004
Software giant Microsoft has announced it plans to release its new operating system, Longhorn, without desktop search utility WinFS.
The decision to delay the desktop search facility is believed to have been taken in order to have the operating system available to the public sooner. Microsoft says it will make a test version of the search software available to programmers in 2006.
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, is now expected some time next year and Microsoft reportedly plans to release WinFS after the arrival of Longhorn.
Microsoft is also believed to be planning to include a search utility within its desktop search in order to challenge Google's rumoured plans to move into PC search technology.
WinFS, short for Windows File System, will enable PC users to retrieve data, such as email, music, images, documents or spreadsheets with a single search.
"In order to make this date (of 2006), we've had to simplify some things, to stagger it. One of the things we're staggering is the Windows storage work," Jim Allchin, Microsoft's vice president in charge of Windows development, said in an interview with CNET News.com. "We'll still have rapid search covering the data just as we planned."
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