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Monday, October 27, 2008 4:30 PM

ARCast.TV - Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership

This ARCast features Michael Manos who leads all the datacenters for Microsoft globally. Michael is leading Microsoft’s transformation into massive scale datacenter environments for Web 2.0 and online services. Michael is interviewed by Lewis Curtis .
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:30 AM

Microsoft Wins Best packaging Prevention Initiative 2008

Microsoft Ireland won the Repak 2008 recycling award for best packaging prevention initiative. Repak is Ireland’s first voluntary initiative between industry and the Department of the Environment designed to meet industry’s producer responsibility obligations
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:39 AM

Fiat ecoDrive video

As a follow up to the blog post on Fiat and Microsoft’s new ecoDrive initiative I thought that I’d post this “cute” video on the ecoDrive technology. Fiat's new ecoDrive technology is the world's first in-car USB device that allows drivers to see how
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Monday, October 20, 2008 4:03 PM

Microsoft’s Chicago Area Data Center begins its journey

Mike Manos, general manager of Microsoft’s Data Center infrastructure just posted a great blog entry on the new Chicago data center that just completed it’s first phase of construction. This is a unique data center which uses containers to house its servers
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Friday, October 10, 2008 3:40 PM

GreenMonk Interview with Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist

Check out this video podcast at GreenMonk discussing how large organisations can reduce their environmental footprint, using Microsoft’s own example; we discussed how Microsoft software is helping other companies reduce their carbon footprint and we discussed
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:01 AM

FIAT: THE “ECODRIVE” SYSTEM PRESENTED IN PARIS FOR “ECO-RESPONSIBLE” DRIVING

Last week at the Paris Motor Show, Fiat presented their innovative EcoDrive application. This is an exciting application, built on Microsoft Auto technology, which teaches drivers to reduce emissions. You can find more about the EcoDrive solution at http://www.microsoft.com/environment/software_showcase/articles/eco_drive.aspx
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:55 PM

Microsoft Recognizes Winners of Annual MSVP Awards

As part of our sustainable corporate practices Microsoft recognized some of the great work of our vendors to help drive Microsoft’s sustainability initiatives. This year’s awards included a category for Environmental Excellence. The winners of the Environmental
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