If there must be an epitaph, let's write it for personal computing rather than WinFS. What Quentin Clark calls the "object/relational/XML trinity (http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/07/20.html#a1044)" of data management technologies can still bear fruit --- if they're cultivated on common ground. Six months ago I'd have doubted that could happen. But now that Ray Ozzie has announced Simple Sharing Extensions (http://www.infoworld.com/4261) for RSS, demonstrated LiveClipboard (http://www.infoworld.com/4262) at ETech, and inherited Bill Gates' old job as chief software architect, I'm thinking maybe it can.