Can Windows 8 do Tagging as OS X Mavericks?

The upcoming Apple OS X Mavericks (the successor of OS X Mountain Lion) has an appealing feature, Tagging. Every document in OS X Mavericks can be tagged, or even multi-tagged, besides organising them all to folders. Can I do the same in Windows 8?

 

Hi Steve,

Tagging is a long awaited feature by me. Recently I saw it's implementation in Gmail and soon in OS X Mavericks Finder Tags (http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/#tags). I don't know if tagging will change the properties of a file or using another daemon and database to track and index the filename with a full path plus new tags. In the latter case, the tabs in OS X Mavericks may not be transferrable. Moreover, I am expecting to see the tabbing feature has a kind of "local" and "global" type.

I remember long time ago, Windows (Vista?) has a feature allowing user to enter description to a file (basically for photos. But it's not convenient to me and I had to add such a column from Windows Explorer. It could then be used as a kind of tagging.

In the past, I worked on some Document Management Systems and required substantial development to add tags to Office documents. It's good that OS X will have it soon, so Office for Mac may take this advantage. I'd also like to see it in Windows and preferrably tags can follow a document transfer.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12wOOSxSob8 I do not know if this is what you are referring to or if the program is still available for download.

 

Thanks lj50. That's a simple way to tag files. I'm out now.

 

You're welcome.