Robert Scoble responds to “news” that WinFS is no longer. Robert theorizes that the growth of the Web is at least in part responsible for Microsoft’s refocusing away from WinFS–after all, if you have limited resources, where are you going to put your big bets? Several of his commenters vociferously disagree.
The WinFS team makes their announcement here that WinFS is not dead; just that it’s going to be different. What it ultimately will be, we’ll have to see. Maybe a new name will help. What about Windows Live Database Foundation? Sounds good to me. Hehehe.