February 15, 2004

Is WinFS on Longhorn the ultimate form of lock-in?

Still just throwing up questions about Longhorn.

How easy will it be to get data out of WinFS? I don't mean how easy will it be to retrieve a single piece of data but how easy will it be to move everything out of WinFS if I should choose to do so at a future date?

I guess if WinFS takes off as Microsoft hopes it will, then various third party vendors or open source groups will see an opportunity to create a useful data extraction utility.

But, if I want to "come out of" WinFS, what other options will be available to me to put my data and my metadata in?

Posted by Andrew Watt at February 15, 2004 06:07 PM
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