Dubbed Windows Future Storage (WinFS), the new means for storing, accessing or indexing files would replace NTFS and FAT32, which are used by Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows. In preparation for the file system, Microsoft has reorganised...
The company has already demonstrated a prototype of an MSN tool that will allow computer users to quickly search for a keyword from within files, emails and even email attachments. Improved search, across multiple kinds of files, will still be a...
Under NTFS, perhaps the most common file system that we work with today, every file has three timestamps called the MAC values: the date and time at which the relevant file was first created, last modified and last accessed.
This sifts through multiple Outlook email folders and allows them to be searched by content, by name, date and even by attachment type, providing 'views' (pre-defined search queries) to enable searches to be repeated as and when.
The scheme, which will come into effect on 1 January 2007, will compile and retain indefinitely details on individuals including their health, school, police and family situation records, with doctors and youth workers among those tasked with...
The Patent Office agreed to re-examine two patents covering the FAT system, a common means of storing files which is also used by some Linux- and Unix-related products to exchange data with Windows, at the request of a little-known public interest...