Today at the New York International Auto Show , Microsoft and Ford Motor Co. announced that the two companies are teaming up to implement the Microsoft Hohm home energy management application in Ford’s upcoming electric vehicles. Ford is the first automaker...

On Saturday, March 27 th from 8:30pm Eastern Daylight Time to 9:30pm Pacific Daylight Ti me, the  Bing homepage will be dark in support of Earth Hour . Created by World Wildlife Fund , Earth Hour asks people to participate and demonstrate their concern...

Kevin Timmons, General Manager of Microsoft's Datacenter services, just posted a blog post on the next step in Microsoft’s datacenter evolution, which is consistent with the vision that we’d previously laid out as our Generation 4 datacenter. Our plan...

Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington has earned the Green Restaurant Association's (GRA) 2-Star Certified Green Restaurant, becoming the first and only corporate dining program to earn this level. The GRA’s star certification process is based...

At CERA Week this week in Houston, Microsoft released a new survey that suggests only 8 percent of utilities around the world have completed their smart grid technology implementations while 37 percent have projects underway and more than half haven’t...

Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s chief environmental strategist, posted the following entry on The  Microsoft Blog .  Reposting here: Reducing global carbon emissions is a massive challenge.  To help get a grip on this task, governments, private...

A number of stakeholders have asked us for our position on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce climate-related activities. We’ve shared the following response with them and I wanted to share it publicly as well: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has never spoken...