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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:17 PM

7 Ways to Change the World

I really like this initiative for Windows 7 Ways to Change the World from Microsoft Citizenship (although a pity it is just for US Residents). The competition encourages people to create short videos explaining how they believe a Windows PC could help
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 2:26 PM

Using Bing API to help improve the Environment

Just saw these cool uses of the Bing API on the bing community site “ Watch short videos featuring two "Will Code for Green" contest winners, who introduce their innovations based on the Bing API. Patrick Colin McGraw discusses his winning entry,
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 10:08 AM

Windows 7: A 'greener' OS? - SmartPlanet.com

“At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, SmartPlanet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 operating system. Bernard says Microsoft made energy efficiency a core design
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Monday, September 14, 2009 11:04 AM

IE8 the best browser for power consumption?

Well accordingly to this article Browser Face-Off: Battery Life Explored from http://www.anandtech.com IE8 compares well against all the major browsers for using as little power as possible on you laptop running Windows. “ If you're not set on using a
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:59 PM

New Microsoft Environmental Video – Innovating to improve the planet

If you wanted to get an over view of how Microsoft has a corporation is tackling some of our environmental challenges and what we have done so far then check out this video: Software Enabled Earth : New Microsoft Environmental Practices video Just some
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 9:55 AM

Solar-powered, bio-degradable netbook

So will this be the future of how netbooks and other devices will be powered and made of? Thanks to Wired - Spanish solar-powered, bio-degradable netbook More info on Iunika (In Spanish) but you can of course use the Windows Live Translator to read in
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009 4:21 PM

100% rated Windows Help articles

Every now and then I post up a list of all the articles that have been rated helpful by everyone who had rated them. So I thought it was about time I did it again. The following 14 articles since the 1st January 2009 are all rated 100% Networking in Windows
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:35 AM

Improving Energy Efficiency with Windows 7 Power Management – Web Cast

Following on for the Windows 7 white paper on power management I wanted to highlight what looks like a really interesting up and coming webcast. TechNet Webcast: Improving Energy Efficiency with Windows 7 Power Management (Level 200) " Duration :
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:12 PM

Windows Vista environmental whitepapers and resources

  Last week I highlighted the new Power management in Windows 7 Whitepaper .  Well Michael Walsh who runs the site has also pointed out some great Windows Vista whitepapers aimed at environmental issues to me that I didn’t know existed: Greening
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:48 AM

Power Management in Windows 7 White Paper now available

Michael Walsh from the Microsoft Environment site has just told me of a large update to the web site, which also includes a new Windows 7 Power Management White Paper other updates include a homepage update as well as : New RSS Feed Unified Communications
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 2:18 PM

Just don’t spill your Americano on it

Remember the wooden PC ? Well now there is the cardboard PC I quite like the idea especially for its green credentials as ‘… the outer body can be recycled…’ But keep it away from all things wet such as coffee, half drunk water bottles and other detritus
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:37 AM

Amazon Frustration-Free™ Packaging

Really like this new initiative from Amazon, not only from the ecological side of things but from the Wrap rage that I am sure you will all have encountered with stuff you buy. I love the idea of the UGC (User generated Content) element  to the campaign
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Monday, August 11, 2008 4:50 PM

Microsoft Environment: turn your compute off and Edison Pc Power ManCgement software

A while back I blogged about the Microsoft Environment blog since then I have been keeping up to date with what is going on and it has been going from strength to strength and wanted to point out some more excellent resources which you might not have
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Monday, June 23, 2008 1:48 PM

Microsoft Environment Web Site

I got an email over the weekend from one of my colleagues (Michael) who was pointing me to the new Microsoft Environment web site at http://www.microsoft.com/environment/ . So I thought I would check it out and see what it had to offer. After a quick
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