My adventure with Windows Vista began with multiple attempts to install the operating system itself on various computers in my possession. First, I had hoped to install it as an upgrade for Windows XP that is running on my actual work computer. I wouldn't ordinarily recommend this, but...

Those of you who regularly read my editorials will already be familiar with my Hamurabi.NET project. For those of you who aren't, at the start of this year I began fooling around with a modern-day .NET implementation of the classic mainframe computer game Hamurabi.

The next version of the Windows operating system (codenamed 'Longhorn') has a new storage subsystem (codenamed 'WinFS'). In this article, we will try to understand the need for 'WinFS'; define 'WinFS', its type system, and its data model; and learn how to write applications that take a...