Why yes, Apple owns a patent for that feature, even though it has not ever been used in shipping Apple product.000111one111000 said:Doesn't Apple already have a patent for this?
Try this.grapes911 said:I don't want to sound stupid, but what? I don't see what you are referring to?
I'm not sure, but it looks like it shows how many files are in the folder.nightdweller25 said:What exactly does it do? =/
Developed by Gitta Salomon and her team close to a decade ago, a pile is a loose grouping of documents. Its visual representation is an overlay of all the documents within the pile, one on top of the other, rotated to varying degrees. In other words, a pile on the desktop looked just like a pile on your real desktop.
To view the documents within the pile, you clicked on the top of the pile and drew the mouse up the screen. As you did so, one document after another would appear as a thumbnail next to the pile. When you found the one you were looking for, you would release the mouse and the current document would open.
Piles, unlike today's folders, gave you a lot of hints as to their contents. You could judge the number of documents in the pile by its height. You could judge its composition very rapidly by pulling through it.
It came from here.Patmian212 said:Dont wanna sound stupid but, where did you get screen shot of longhorn is out yet?
daveway00 said:Does anyone notice that MS is stepping away from the long standing Windows look to more Mac look. Notice the search box? And it certainly doesn't look easier to use.
Timelessblur said:Well this feature has a lot to do with WinFS and was wanted to be put in winFS to begin with. Apple spotlight is a very water down verson of what winFS will be in the end. .....
mrzeve said:Sorry but I dont get what the hell your talking about.
Looks like a regular folder, with an icon, and when you click it its being highlighted...
Here's a link to a WMV of Bill Gates describing what WinFS is all about.daveway00 said:What's so great about WinFS?
Microsoft is trying to make it easier for you to find your data on our ever-increasing hard drives. By adding relational database capabilities to the file system, it will take less time to find documents, email, and other data. After all, as one Microsoft executive asked me recently, "Why can we find anything we want on the Internet in seconds, but it takes so long to find our own data on our own PCs?" In addition to the underlying WinFS technology, Microsoft is also adding a new file system concept called Libraries, which will organize like collections of data in Longhorn, regardless of where they are physically stored in the system. For example, a Photos & Movies Library would collect links to every digital photo and digital video on your system.
"I should not care about location when I save," says Microsoft VP Chris Jones. "Why can't I just click on my computer and it shows me my documents? It is a computer. It should know what a document is, what I have edited and annotated, what I have searched for before, and what other places I have looked for documents. It is not just documents on my computer I am looking for. It is documents I care about."
SQL Server as your file system. I am not sure why it has taken so long since it will use existing technology. Oracle created their own file system (IFS) based on database technology years ago. Benefits would be you can recover your system without corruption from a power shutdown, hot backups while files are in use, speed, better filtering technology, better searching and is extendable, device independence, can find files as easily remotely as locally. I wonder what the problems could have been besides backward compatibility with tools like Norton Utilities.daveway00 said:What's so great about WinFS?
Does Apple have any technology like this that they can leverage in a future version of Mac OS X?BornAgainMac said:SQL Server as your file system. I am not sure why it has taken so long since it will use existing technology. Oracle created their own file system (IFS) based on database technology years ago. Benefits would be you can recover your system without corruption from a power shutdown, hot backups while files are in use, speed, better filtering technology, better searching and is extendable, device independence, can find files as easily remotely as locally. I wonder what the problems could have been besides backward compatibility with tools like Norton Utilities.
wrldwzrd89 said:Does Apple have any technology like this that they can leverage in a future version of Mac OS X?
wrldwzrd89 said:Does Apple have any technology like this that they can leverage in a future version of Mac OS X?