So ... can anybody provide any reason why I should care in the slightest? WTF was WiinFS supposed to do that you couldn't already do with NTFS? Or even FAT, for that matter.
Another classic case of a Microsoft "solution" running round looking for a problem. It's no wonder their products suck when they waste incredible amounts of time and money doing stuff that just doesn't need doing.
You know, I'd really like to be put in charge of MS product development for a week. I'd start at 9:00AM on Monday morning with 12,000 staff doing product development and knock off for lunch with 2,000 still on the payroll. After lunch, I'd tell them that from now on they are going to work on stuff that actually matters. If any one of them is having trouble finding a programming job that actually matters, that's no problem - I'm not proud: I'm perfectly happy to be in charge of 1999 programmers instead of 2000; the one who can't find something useful to do needn't bother turning up on Tuesday.