They could always map google.* to go to their search engine
LOL
That's what they think too, but they have most definately proven themselves wrong. You can't always throw a couple million at something and hope to succeed. Just look at the xbox division, it became pretty popular here, but flopped in Japan and a bunch of other countries, and the division is billions in the red.
Interestingly enough, I think that if Sony doesn't really come out strong with some kind of online support beyond the rudimentary crap they have now, the PS3 is going to lose ground, even with the software support it has from PSold and PS2.
Nevermind, you missed it.
Why don't you explain what I'm not seeing then? I'm not trying to insult Vista; I'm simply saying this is using age-old technology. If you're saying it writes to a MSSQL database every time the filesystem is changed, that seems like a huge waste of resources to me.
I won't go forward and say that it's a huge waste of resources, because I'm sure they're not incorporating the whole SQL Server engine into the kernel. I'm happy to see that they're putting that power into the filesystem, but War, you'd be surprised how much information is actually stored by NTFS's relational database engine. Simply because it doesn't do full-text indexing and stuff like that implementing a filesystem with a SQL engine is that revolutionary.
The primary difference between NTFS and WinFS is that NTFS scans record-by-record at files. Indexing service, when enabled, theoretically intercepts and indexes full-text stuff, although I've never actually seen an improvement by enabling it. WinFS is simply going to make a search go like so:
SELECT * FROM fileSystem WHERE path LIKE "C:/*" AND fileName LIKE "*.txt";
It'll make searching much, much faster in Windows, but it isn't a revolution except for Windows.