Last week Microsoft announced the winners and finalists of its 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards. 1E , a software and services company that creates energy efficiency solutions built on Microsoft platform technology, won in the ISV/Software Solutions...

Recently the Uptime Institute awarded Microsoft with its Green Enterprise IT Award for IT initiatives in our Chicago datacenter . The Chicago facility uses containers to house and run servers.  This design has led to greater efficiencies and a reduction...

We wanted to highlight this new column on the Hohm community blog where experts from the Washington State University's Extension Energy Program will respond and post answers to your home energy and efficiency questions. The first column focuses on questions...

Earlier this year at CeBIT , Microsoft and German utility company RWE announced a joint project to help RWE customers improve energy efficiency in their homes. The  project, called “SmartHome”, aims to reduce customer energy bills by improving energy...

Saturday June 5 is the annual World Environment Day which was created by the United Nations (UN) to stimulate worldwide awareness of the environment. Microsoft has been a proud partner of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) to help find ways...