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==Features== Cairo used [[distributed computing]] concepts to make information available quickly and seamlessly across a worldwide network of computers. The [[Windows 95]] user interface was based on the initial design work that was done on the Cairo user interface.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://prior.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/kds_txt.htm | title=The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering | author=Kent Sullivan | date=April 17, 1996 | work=CHI 96 Design Briefs | access-date=2008-10-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006052815/http://prior.sigchi.org/chi96/proceedings/desbrief/Sullivan/kds_txt.htm | archive-date=October 6, 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/win95/desk_os.mspx | title=Microsoft Windows 95: Desktop Operating System Strategy | work=Directions on Microsoft | date=January 1995 | access-date=2007-01-07}}</ref> [[DCE/RPC]] shipped in [[Windows NT 3.1]]. Content Indexing is now a part of [[Internet Information Server]] and [[Windows Desktop Search]].<ref name="LarryCOM" /> The remaining component is the [[Object-based file system|object file system]]. It was once planned to be implemented in the form of [[WinFS]] as part of [[Windows Vista]] but development was cancelled in June 2006, with some of its technologies merged into other Microsoft products such as [[Microsoft SQL Server|Microsoft SQL Server 2008]], also known under the codename "Katmai".<ref name="canned">{{ cite web | url = https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/winfs/winfs-update | title = WinFS Update | author = Quentin Clark | date = June 23, 2006 | access-date = 2023-02-02 | work = What's in Store | publisher = MSDN Blogs }}</ref>
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