Redmond (WA) - In an exclusive interview with Tom's Hardware Guide this afternoon, Microsoft's lead product manager for Windows Client operating systems, Greg Sullivan, revealed the company is working on a new "metadata" filing system that will be the focus of Vista's new "virtual folders" model.
In the wake of Microsoft's release, at 10:00 a.m. West Coast time this morning, of Windows Vista Beta 1 to selected and subscribing participants in its testing program, Sullivan introduced us to the new Document Explorer. While replete with new textures and animations, the replacement for Windows XP's "My Computer" will also be utilizing "rich metadata," generated by applications such as the company's forthcoming Office 12 suite. Like the metadata used by XHTML Web pages to help search engines categorize them in their semantic databases for the entire Internet, Vista's new system will employ similar metadata for document files, that is shared with local databases. This way, virtual folders can be set up to display documents based on their contents and their common attributes, not just their filenames.
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Jul 28, 2005, 12:38 AM
