Last night I got a demo of a Microsoft lab project that will be available this summer. Tesla is a layer on top of XP that provides an alternative way of structuring and accessing the files on your desktop. You can sort your files by a whole bunch of the usual file attributes (date, size, etc.) but also by tags. Tags replace folders. (It’s a faceted classification system.)

Tesla virtualizes the file system to the point that it doesn’t care which actual machine a file lives on. So, if you have home and office computers, it syncs them up automatically. From your point of view, you’re working on a file without worrying about where the bits actually are stored.

It’ll ship first as a lab experiment. Definitely cool and possibly useful. Cairo lives!

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