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As reported by our own Jeff Alexander: “To celebrate Earth Day 2009 the TechNet team has done a special Green issue of TechNet Magazine. This edition is only available online which makes sense giving it’s all about Green IT. The whole issue is dedicated
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I really encourage Microsoft partners in Australia to sign up as members of the Voices for Innovation (VfI) community. It’s free, takes a few seconds yet can connect you with a global group of like-minded professionals, often within the Microsoft partner
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We’re excited to continue building momentum on our environment and sustainability (E&S) strategy and communications by launching a localised version of the worldwide E&S site: http://www.microsoft.com/australia/environment/
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Our worldwide Chief Environmental Officer has just posted an important blog entry (following an internal communication to all staff via email from Steve Ballmer) on our focus on carbon reduction. The headline: “Today, Steve announced to all employees
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Go find out more about our local corporate affairs activities on our new site, including the awesome On My Way initiative you've seen me talk about before. https://www.microsoft.com/australia/about/default.mspx
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd126738.aspx "Microsoft Australia Uses RoundTable to Improve Productivity, Save Costs, and Reduce Carbon Footprint"
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I installed the Edison PC Power Management application today. It's a great piece of software we are officially endorsing and it provides a consumer-friendly interface to help the users decide how much power saving they want to do - but it also tells you
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Well I was delighted with the award process, quality and quantity of entries for the Environmental Solution Award last week and as pleased with the press coverage we had from CRN. The worldwide environmental team has also made some big announcements and
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To quote the director of our developer and evangelism team yesterday on stage in front of all our Microsoft Australian staff, 'ozzie, ozzie, ozzie', with respect to the brilliant news to come out of the Imagine Cup . Team SOAK, from Australia, were the
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The Imagine Cup final is on . Team SOAK from Australia is representing us all. Good luck ! Find out more here: http://imaginecup.com/Default.aspx and here: http://imaginecup.com/About/WhatIs.aspx
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The Environmental team in our HQ has recently launched a great new section on their website outlining a number of technical resources for customers and partners to leverage - examples include white papers, guidelines, tools & utilities etc. Take a
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Well, the awards submission tool closed last night and we have had a fabulous quantity and quality of submissions. Many thanks to all the partners who submitted. We had over 140 submissions - more than 20% up on last year ! And also you've all added your
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Bianca has posted an interesting interview with Jonathan Lewis who runs our local IT operation - on the topic of environmental improvements and policy in the IT space: http://blogs.technet.com/lmeg/archive/2008/06/27/green-it-video-interview-with-microsoft-it-manager-australia.aspx
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Via Bianca's great blog: "Microsoft has published a new whitepaper on Windows Server 2008 power savings, and the results and methodologies of the tests run to develop the paper. This is an excellent document, which outlines the test results (downloadable
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http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ I have been personally quite heavily involved in our local planning towards increasing the partner focus on Environment and Sustainability (E&S) so it's a subject like many people I am passionate about. This fabulous
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