Microsoft Takes On RFID Data Management

"Senior VP Flessner calls making RFID available inexpensively and plentifully from a Windows perspective a "super-important play." Senior VP Paul Flessner said Tuesday at Microsoft's TechEd conference in Orlando, Fla., that SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006 will ship the week of Nov. 7. The company is also working on software for use with Windows and SQL Server it says could smooth out problems companies are having loading data from RFID tags into databases, and making that data available to workers." Source: InformationWeek