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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:00 PM

Software Downloads Help Microsoft and Customers Reduce Carbon Footprint

Today, Microsoft released the results of a comparative carbon footprint study which found significant environmental benefits to providing its software to consumers online. The study concluded that downloading Office 2007 avoided 8 times the amount of
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Friday, March 27, 2009 4:43 PM

In the news this week

I wanted to share some of the news coverage that we’ve seen this week following Rob Bernard’s visit to San Francisco for the Green:Net 09 conference. CNET News Daily Podcast: Getting Windows 7 to use less power http://news.cnet.com/8301-11424_3-10204409-90.html
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Friday, March 27, 2009 1:14 AM

Rob Bernard keynote at Green:Net 09

Watch Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Enviromnental Strategist, present the keynote at Green:Net 09 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCpc1Jf01P4&feature=channel I highly recommend checking out Earth2Tech for more details on Green:Net and additional
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:06 PM

WWF Studies Find Information Technology Significantly Reduces Climate Impacts, Costs of doing business

From http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/media/press/2009/WWFPresitem11941.html . The research was funded by both HP and Microsoft. World Wildlife Fund today released two new studies that underscore how existing information technology (IT) solutions can
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:39 PM

TechNet Magazine: Digital Health Care and the Environment

The Health Care industry is on the verge of great transformation. There has been an increased investment in Health Care Information Technology (HIT) that will affect all aspects of healthcare services, from costs to patient safety to the security and
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 11:19 PM

Rittal and Microsoft help to save electricity

This article reposted from http://en.rittal.de/RiZone_en.html Nowadays, almost all business processes are IT-assisted. The retail, financial, tourism and entertainment sectors would be unimaginable without online services. Countless servers in ever-growing
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Saturday, March 14, 2009 11:34 PM

Revised Microsoft Environment Site Launched

This past week we re-launched the http://www.microsoft.com/environment site with improved navigation, refined design, and more content. You can also check out our new Green IT section which provides information on how you can save energy, save money and
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Thursday, March 12, 2009 12:30 AM

Reducing Microsoft’s carbon footprint

Today, our CEO Steve Ballmer sent an e-mail to all Microsoft employees about Microsoft’s long-term commitment to increase our focus around environmental sustainability. As Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist, I’m humbled and excited that Steve
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