Ars Technica does a good follow-up on their initial look at Vista from a graphical and design POV…this article goes into (limited) depth on the (belatedly updated) security model and what got cut from the release…WinFS most notably.

Shame about WinFS which is now apparently dead…but I wouldn’t be in least surprised to see something of it resurrected given that it’s principle means of data storage seems to be very similar to the way data gets backed-up and stored in Windows Home Server beta which I was involved in a few months back.

I guess storage of the myriad forms of digital soup that now reside on our PC’s is more of an issue than simply normalising all the instances of file fragments found in PC’s within your workgroup and storing instances of identical disk sectors just the once as WHS does. Still like this product but it needs a few more things like support for email transports, torrents and an externally-faced webserver with zero-config option.