User Experience Thinking: Project Orange

A reasonable amount of buzz has be flowing around today about Project Orange.

Project Orange is described by the WinFS Team Blog at:

The killer app for getting users organised

Project Orange is about the creation of an application that demonstrates the reason why WinFS is the replacement for the file system. But more than that, why it’s something that truly liberates data from the constraints of the application.

The file system has been a mainstay of the corporate and desktop infrastructure for a very long time now. If it’s going to change then the change can’t be about the technology. The change has to be about the user experience, enabling them to do things they have never done before in ways that feel more familiar than the file system today.

The WinFS iWish Video is quite interesting to watch – not a ‘file’ in sight.

Tags: WinFS, Project Orange, Microsoft