This and true search was one of the big ideas MS was going to bring to vista with it's new filesystem that they couldn't get working. I haven't heard anything lately about if they got winfs working and will be released at all.
Mike On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But I think it's only recently become common. I've been > >online since...I don't remember when, maybe 93'. And only in the last > >few months have I seen this term posted all over the place. But I > >guess every so often computer users get bored and have to either make > >things up or resurrect old terms. > > The idea of tagging is a powerful replacement for the old file-folder > metaphor. The problem with the old file-folder metaphor was that a file > could only be in one place at a time, unless it was copied (but copying > files leads to bigger messes) or pointed to with aliases/shortcuts (but > that leads to a different kind of messiness). Tags is a different way to > look at organization that is much more powerful. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
