Project Green

Microsoft Corp. is slowing down development work on a new family of its business applications -- known as "Project Green" -- and is instead focusing on the products it currently sells. Because the first products now won't be out until 2008 at the earliest, the number of developers assigned to Project Green is being reduced from 200 to 70, Microsoft Senior Vice President Doug Burgum said Wednesday. Microsoft originally had planned to ship the first results of Project Green as early as late 2004.