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No FAT On This Bull

http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20030617/index.html

An illuminating article on an important topic -- file systems. The standard file system used on most PCs, FAT, is really starting to show its age, and NTFS, while considerably more capable, is about a decade old too. Yet advances have been made in this area, and we can benefit from their application.

Microsoft's "Loghorn" will gore us, will-nilly, and one of the major things promised in this new release is a new file system which functions like a relational database [if I understand it correctly]. This is the sort of innovation which Microsoft needs to make if it wants to retain its premier position on the desktop. That it also can give Microsoft OS an additional competitive advantage has probably not escaped the attention of those in charge at Redmond.