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Microsoft Launches RFID Software Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-surprises-here dept.

securitas writes "RFID Journal reports on the first Microsoft RFID software pilot project. Microsoft launched the six-month pilot in December with KiMs, Denmark's largest snack food producer. Microsoft plans to bring the new RFID-enabled supply chain management software (Axapta Warehouse Management) to market next year, targeting small- to medium-sized businesses. The news comes after Microsoft announced its Smarter Retailing Initiative, tools based on RFID and .Net Web services. More on this latest development at CNet and InformationWeek."

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  1. 1/2 joke, 1/2 premonition by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    [Pilot-Project Test Warehouse in Denmark]

    PHB: OK, the new MS inventory system automatically ordered 15 semi-trailer loads of Kotex Ultra Thick & Fluffy With Wings. Make sure we have room for that shipment.

    GeekSlave: But.. Sir, we sell snack food, not..

    PHB: Don't question the system; do you know how much it cost?!

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  2. Licensing by panxerox · · Score: 4, Funny

    hmmm lets see 2000000 rfd tags at $399.00 for each license comes too ....

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  3. So it's bad. by SpaceCadetTrav · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft AND RFID bashing all in one thread. Woohoo!

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  4. Patents by reuben04 · · Score: 3, Funny

    news from the CNN today: Microsoft Patents the RFID supply chain management process!

  5. This could be of medical use... by loserbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    You RFID the food itself, not the wrapper, that way you can track its journey through your system and beyond!

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  6. Good news by djupedal · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft launched the six-month pilot in December

    Great...good news that. I was worried that a capable outfit would get involved and RFID might gain traction. Now I can relax.

  7. I feel much better about ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 3, Funny

    the privacy implications of RFIDs now that I know that Microsoft will be running the software that tracks them. And I look forward to my secure computing/Palladium/RFID implant. I know that my unimatrix team can help assimilate unique biological species to enhance the collective. I'm Five of Twenty Six Adjunct. Welcome!

  8. Big Brother is Watching your snack food by graniteMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jenny Craig cheaters, beware!

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  9. Hmmm... by r_j_prahad · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's interesting. Somehow you made it sound like the perfect opportunity for an OSS project. Huge list of options that no one will ever use, commercial versions going bust right and left, stingy target demographic, not easy to implement, etc.

    I think maybe someone should reserve a space on Sourceforge for RFID.