Windows 11’s Dev Drive uses ReFS and smarter Defender scans to deliver faster, smoother, and more reliable workflows.

Despite of ongoing success of Windows 7 OS, Microsoft is gearing up to launch its beta version of Windows 8 OS by February 2012. Today, it has revealed the particulars of its advanced file system – ...

Microsoft detailed its long awaited and arguably well overdue NTFS replacement yesterday, the Resilient File System (ReFS), on the Building Windows 8 blog. It marks the first time the Redmond-based ...

Microsoft has released the first firm details of ReFS, the new file system that will début with the launch of Windows 8 as a successor to the ageing New Technology File System (NTFS) standard. In a ...

Microsoft officials are finally sharing publicly details about "Protogon," the new file system that the company is developing as part of Windows 8. Officially named ReFS -- for Resilient File System - ...

What's not so clear is why Microsoft's brand-new ReFS file system is also excluded. ReFS does not support every NTFS feature, and it's possible that OneDrive uses one of the features missing from ReFS ...

The upcoming release of Windows Server 8 will feature an entirely new file system, called ReFS, that addresses many of the shortcomings of the aging NTFS (New Technology File System) now used across ...

Firstly, to be clear, ReFS, which stands for 'Resilient File System' will only be available on Windows Server 8, however, will be accessible from clients supporting NTFS, as it supports the same APIs.

Microsoft quietly announced late last week that some editions of Windows 10 will lose file and disk creation capabilities using the Resilient File System (ReFS). "[ReFS] creation ability will be ...