Neowin News Feed for: Retire

Microsoft confirms "major 2026 update" to remove several Planner features, add new ones

Sayan Sen — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:36:01 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that a "major update" is headed for Planner in early 2026 as several features will be removed, while new ones will be added. Read more...

Microsoft Stores for Business and Education are not supported in Windows 11

Usama Jawad — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 06:24:01 +0000

The Redmond tech giant has confirmed that the Microsoft Store for Business and Microsoft Store for Education are being killed off in Q1 2023. The portals are not supported on Windows 11 either. Read more...

Microsoft is retiring its Outlook Web App for Android and iOS

Usama Jawad — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 07:46:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it is retiring its Outlook Web Apps on Android and iOS. The apps will stop working in May 2018, and users will be required to migrate to the standard Outlook app. Read more...

Google Earth API set to retire late next year

Usama Jawad — Sun, 14 Dec 2014 18:40:01 +0000

The Google Earth API will retire late next year due to a variety of reasons; the Google Geo Developers Blog has hinted at new projects in the future but released no details regarding them. Read more...

Gmail graduates and drops some Labs

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:24:36 +0000

Gmail is constantly changing, and user's feedback is a big part of that. Google Labs has been around for a while now, and many users take advantage of them on a daily basis. Depending on... Read more...

Giancarlo to Retire from Cisco

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:37:59 +0000

Today seems to be executive switch-up day in the technology industry. We've already reported on Red Hat's CEO change, and now networking company Cisco has announced in a press release that executive vice president and... Read more...

Amazon CIO to Retire

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:16:59 +0000

Online merchant Amazon.com announced yesterday that Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Richard Dalzell will retire by the end of 2007. Dalzell has served in his current position since February, and previously acted as... Read more...

Google CFO to Retire by End of Year

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:28:57 +0000

Google Inc. said Tuesday that its chief financial officer, George Reyes, will retire by the end of the year, creating the highest-ranking job opening at the Internet search leader since it went public three years... Read more...

Ken Kutaragi "Father of Playstation" to retire

Todd Tanner — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:53:16 +0000

This press release announces that Ken Kutaragi will retire from his post as CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment effective June 19, 2007, to be replaced by president and COO Kazuo Hirai (thanks Kotaku). Kutaragi, known... Read more...

Jeeves to retire this month

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:22:33 +0000

The iconic mascot of Ask.com, Jeeves the butler, will be retired from the site at the end of the month. The decision was taken in September of last year,... Read more...

Microsoft to retire bCentral

Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:49:26 +0000

Overhauling its online services for small businesses, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said it will replace bCentral with a new Microsoft Small Business Center Web site. The Microsoft Small Business Center will offer all the... Read more...

Microsoft Clarifies Intentions to Retire JVM-Based Products

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:02:27 +0000

Four days after posting a note to a community site specifying its intent to retire a number of its flagship products as a result of the Sun Java lawsuit, Microsoft has decided to extend the... Read more...

Intel Chip Guru to Retire

Sat, 29 Jun 2002 13:41:23 +0000

Albert Yu, who led Intel Corp.'s development of microprocessors from the 386 through the Pentium 4, is retiring Sept. 5 after nearly 30 years with the chipmaker. Yu, 61, who currently serves... Read more...