Ford kills 'Everest' procurement software system
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Ford Motor Co. has decided to stop work on a major procurement software system built around Oracle's 11i E-Business Suite of apps and plans to move back toward its original custom-written, mainframe-based applications.
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Ford said on Friday its Jaguar Formula  One team would pull out of the sport at the end of the 2004  season and its Cosworth engine company was also up for sale.
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Online auctioneer will stop supporting Microsoft's sign-in service.
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Microsoft has followed a European company in withdrawing from a UN software standards group for commerce. Known as the United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic
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FORD, the American car giant, confirmed yesterday that it is to stop producing Jaguar cars at its Brownâs Lane plant in Coventry, with the loss of 1,150 jobs.
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Microsoft yanks wish list of features for Vista's successor.
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Blog: Microsoft tried to get its new OOXML file format standard ratified by India and Brazil.  It failed.  Now what?
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IBM has quit the personal computer market 23 years after legitimising the PC revolution that changed everything - from the way we work to the fortunes of Microsoft&#39;s Bill Gates.
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Big Blue silences sirens Emergency vehicle maker American LaFrance (ALF) has claimed that a bungled implementation of IBM software contributed to the demise of its business.â¦
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Microsoft is dropping the WinFS file system technology from Longhorn, the next version of Windows, in a bid to introduce the operating system by 2006.
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Microsoft (Quote, Chart) had little choice but to cut features from Longhorn, its next-generation operating system, analysts and developers say.
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'Like buying a BMW and putting a Ford engine in it' For all you car aficionados out there, how's this for an operating system analogy from PC World?â¦
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UK mesh pioneer taken out of administration
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Blog: The software maker has put a halt to an effort by a group of developers that wanted to build an operating system on top of an early test version of the Vista predecessor.
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Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company&#160;bid $1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search &amp; Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.Jaffe joined the company&#39;s corporate strategy group in 1995, moving on to become chief financial officer of its online services business MSN before taking the role of corporate vice president for corporate development, where he was responsible for the company&#39;s acquisitions and joint ventures strategies.&quot;Bruce&#39;s contribution to Microsoft&#39;s growth is much appreciated and we wish him well in his next endeavor,&quot; the company said in a statement.It&#39;s not clear yet what that next endeavor will be, although some reports say he is looking for a more entrepreneurial role in a smaller company.Jaffe, who has a Masters in Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, lives near Seattle.As architect of Microsoft&#39;s acquisitions strategy, Jaffe presided over its&#160;$6 billion offer for online advertising company aQuantive, a few weeks after Google bid $3.1 billion for DoubleClick.Microsoft representatives would not say what role Jaffe played in the company&#39;s bid for Norwegian company Fast Search &amp; Transfer, revealed Tuesday.
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(InfoWorld) - Microsoft has forced developers to close down a project aimed at reviving the original Windows client code-named "Longhorn." According to a blog posting on the site maintained by developers on the project -- called "Longhorn Reloaded" -- Microsoft sent a "cease and desist" letter to the project leaders asking them to shut it down shortly after the team posted the first release of the project online. "It deeply saddens me that although Microsoft have known about this project for many months they only issued us with this notice a few days after we started to distribute" the first release, according to a post earlier this month on joejoe.org.Community. "I am just as sorry as you guys are about this, but we got [sic] to think about the community as a whole first." Longhorn Reloaded Milestone 1 was released May 19 on the project's Web site, but the post informing users the project has shut down said download links and any threads about the project will no longer be active. Through its public relations firm, Microsoft said that though the company "actively encourages and supports independent developers to take advantage of the features available in our platform to create their own applications and services," the Longhorn Reloaded project violated Windows end-user licensing. Windows enthusiasts decided to pick up where Microsoft left off with Longhorn's development in October 2006. Microsoft had originally called the client release that became Windows Vista "Longhorn" but switched development plans and names mid project, though the company continued to use the Longhorn name for the next Windows Server release. That release has since been renamed officially to Windows Server 2008. The Longhorn Reloaded began the project with a build called Windows 6.0.4074, which Microsoft released at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2004. Microsoft never said it actually abandoned the Longhorn client, and many predicted that when the Longhorn Reloaded project began, it likely would run afoul of Microsoft's legal department.
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Is the desktop dead?  Microsoft can't even make its updates sexy anymore.