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WinFS is good news for shareware developers

The new Windows File System (WinFS) will allow integration of data from different applications. For example, I could replace Outlook, with a seperate email client , todo list , calendar , spam protection, address book - without loosing the integration.

Since developers will be free from writing data translators and plugins for other programs, they will focus on improving their product. All-in-one do-everything missing-many-features expensive applications will gradually disappear and that is good news for (smaller) shareware developers.

Microsoft Office - lookout.

posted by Itai Frenkel @ 11:58 AM