Unify, Organize, Explore, and Innovate. Oh my! (Part 4)

re: Unify, Organize, Explore, and Innovate. Oh my! (Part 4)

Chris Hemmings — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:43:04 GMT

Hi, this is my first posting on any of these dev blogs. I must say that I am very psyched for WinFS. The concept is so simple yet so complex at the same time.

While it's good to have a common 'silo' that all apps can easily use, it's seems a bit risky also. Wouldn't some rogue app/spyware have an easier time getting to that financial Quicken/Money data? Likewise, would such types of apps have an easier time getting to the contact information now? Pardon me, if I missed it :-) but I haven't seen any mention of protections. If there are such protections in place (or user-configurable) then great!

Keep up the awesome work; I am really looking forward to be able to play with this stuff with VStudio.

re: Unify, Organize, Explore, and Innovate. Oh my! (Part 4)

Julien Collot — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:46:15 GMT

I believe (although I have no clue as to how this is implemented by the WinFS developers) that it will be similar as to how this kind of separation is resolved in common relational databases, i.e. users/processes will have access to certain stores in the WinFS silo, and some users/processes could have more privileges than others...

re: Unify, Organize, Explore, and Innovate. Oh my! (Part 4)

Kazi — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:11:24 GMT

May I have a question, not so related to this post? Thanks :-)

I would like to know, is there any plan to release a new WinFS CTP which runs on top of the .Net 2.0 RTM. It would be the best, if the answer is a separate post. Thanks in advance.

re: Unify, Organize, Explore, and Innovate. Oh my! (Part 4)

Eric — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:52:34 GMT

There is a risk with making data more easily accesible. Outlook exposes contact lists to scripting language, for example. THis is a powerful aid to corporations ond developers, but it was too easy for malicious people to exploit via email; so they added a confirmation dialog and did a ton of work in improving the access security story in subsequent releases.

WinFS is working with teams like Outlook to ensure that these important considerations are reflected in the design.

Money/Quicken would probably not be a good app to build on WinFS yet. Typically the whole file would be encrypted, and you wouldn't want to share the raw information with other apps. This doesn't mean that Money couldn't use WinFS to keep address information for contacts, or associate secret information with WinFS items, or provide easy data interchange via WinFS. It's important to keep in mind that there are degrees of sharing.

Windows security is based more around user permissions and ACLs, and WinFS has strong support for these standard security mechanisms.

re: Unify, Organize, Explore, and Innovate. Oh my! (Part 4)

Vijay Bangaru — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 02:33:15 GMT

>> Money/Quicken would probably not be a good app to build on WinFS yet.

This isn't quite true. :-) I'll work on a post after the holidays that will elaborate more on the security model.

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