It even worked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW2H4sgakIA at some point anyway. Now they're just "well, we put the ideas in SQL Server" but I still hope it comes back around. _That_ is the future of storage. ZFS/btrfs/HAMMER are all very, very cool, but WinFS was a level above that.

Minor nit, but HPFS was OS/2's filesystem. Apple's is HFS (and HFS+).

Also, Microsoft has been developing ReFS as a replacement for NTFS.