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[QUOTE="Partron22, post: 23271082, member: 563677"]… do away with user facing file systems in iOS, and, if possible, OSX.
That trend …[/QUOTE]

I think first of Microsoft in the 1990s, and around the turn of the century. If I recall correctly, that type of [I]doing away[/I] was amongst the motivations for things such as WinFS. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS#Motivation']Wikipedia might not support my recollection[/URL] but the words and images in Microsoft's [URL='http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://download.microsoft.com/download/c/e/2/ce28874c-4f44-4dbd-babb-727685e2be96/WinFS_IWish_720x486_2mbs.wmv']IWish Concept Video[/URL] suggest anything/everything [B]except[/B] Windows Explorer.

(Hint: if you'll watch the video, mute the music … it sounds like Steve Ballmer took base speed and decided to play the guitar, instead of jump, in celebration of Microsoft.)

[URL='http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/12/bill_gates_reddit_ama/']Billionaire baron Bill Gates still mourns Vista's stillborn WinFS • The Register[/URL]