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NewsBill Gates' biggest Microsoft product regret: WinFSstaffTerrence Dorsey11 Feb '13 - 10:42 
ZDNet[^]:
What one Microsoft program or product that was never fully developed or released do you wish had made it to market? Gates: "We had a rich database as the client/cloud store that was part of a Windows release that was before its time. This is an idea that will remerge since your cloud store will be rich with schema rather than just a bunch of files and the client will be a partial replica of it with rich schema understanding." For those who may not know, Gates was referencing WinFS, or Windows Future Storage.
...and other tidbits from Bill Gates' first-ever Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit.
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GeneralRe: Bill Gates' biggest Microsoft product regret: WinFSmemberLloyd Atkinson11 Feb '13 - 14:57 
The problem with putting words like "future" in names is that even 5 years down the road, it seems a silly name. A bit like calling a road "New Road".
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GeneralRe: Bill Gates' biggest Microsoft product regret: WinFSmemberClifford Nelson12 Feb '13 - 11:09 
Remember new college in oxford, england. There you have several 100 years
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GeneralNT: New TechnologymemberClifford Nelson12 Feb '13 - 11:10 
Remember Windows NT????/
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