Avalon and Indigo in XP, WinFS delayed.

Microsoft revamps its plans for Longhorn removing winFS - no suprises here. It will also be releasing Avalon and Indigo for Windows XP. WinFS's delay is obviously good news for the Novell's iFolder. The fact that Longhorn is more than two years away is also good news to the OSS community. Linux 2.6 should be the dominant kernel at the time. Great projects such as dashboard, gnome storage (I think I saw a similar project to this one, also for gnome that looked better but I can't remember where) and KDE's new search engine will be concluded. Firefox will probably be at version 2+, if version 0.9 is this good (so much better than IE), just think of what version 2.0 will include and how much better it will be than IE then. Think machine learning (?) (I've made a note to myself to blog about this latter)! Not to mention that mono may have picked up quite a pace by then. And let's not forget that you rarely (never?) hear microsoft software early-adopters say they're happy. Competition is increasing and delays in products may cause Microsoft more problems than just temporarily lower stock prices.

UPDATE: beagle. nuff said.