Windows Seven (Vienna)

[PGHammer]

WinFS isn't a File System though, it's a database like "Store" that works ontop of NTFS. MS won't just dump NTFS out the door and use something brand new outta nowhere.

That said, the only problem that NTFS still has is that it can still fragment. MS should update it and add pro-active messures so that files don't fragment. It shouldn't be hard, and it won't mess with compatibility.

*All* filesystems fragment; however, some fragment less than others. One big advantage NTFS has always had over FAT32 is the amount of fragmentation is far less with NTFS. (Lest you think you Mac-philes are immune, the same is true with HFS+ (the journaling filesystem at the core of OS X); the freeware iDefrag helps combat fragmentation on HFS+ volumes.) There are commercial automatic defragmentation products for NTFS volumes (my own favorite, and the one that I use, is Diskeeper Pro Premier 2008), or are you proposing that Microsoft kill third-party applications?

[George P Global Moderator]

As you said, and I already knew, "all filesystems fragment" over time. So MS making pro-active changes to cut down on NTFSs fragmentation speed won't kill third-party applications. And say it does technically kill them off, so what? Are you saying that because we have, for example, third party Anti-Virus software, MS shouldn't try to make windows more secure agenst virus attacks?

Because you know, at the end of the day, it's the same thing.