VisualStudio Magazine has a good article on Whidbey. Some exciting hints about Yukon integration and lifecycle management tools, but the gist seems to be that this is a release targeted at enterprise developers. #
Ray Ozzie points out the really exciting thing about WinFS is not the search, its the common schemas that apps can use to store their data. I hope he’s right that these standard, extensible schemas will enable interoperability at the data level. Currently, we as an industry don’t have much experience with reusing schemas across multiple organizations.