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Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the environmental-update dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to this article, Microsoft is only a few lines of code away from becoming the greenest company on Earth." From the article: "Redmond should issue a software upgrade to every computer running Microsoft Windows worldwide to adjust each machine's energy-saving settings for maximum efficiency." The author figures that the upgrade would affect 100 million computers and that the power cost savings could hit $7 billion per year. CO2 emissions would be cut by 45 million tons. But what about the impact on computing?

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  1. Greenest? by Himring · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this atones not for monopolism

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  2. Here's a thought ... by LaughingCoder · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If the installed base of PCs was comprised of many different OSes each of comparable market penetration, this would require almost every OS vendor to make these changes -- assuming of course they all had something akin to the Windows Power control applet in the first place. In fact, this *could* be one of those times when having a monopoly desktop OS is a *good* thing.

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  3. NO! by delirium+of+disorder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Microsoft didn't exist at all, the IT industry would be far more energy efficient. Think of the stupidity of integrating the GUI into the Kernel for an OS that runs servers. Windows is bloated and it isn't getting any better. A look at the system requirements of Vista further proves just how inefficient Windows is. Think of all the CPU cycles, RAM, Disk Space, and other resources waisted on anti-malware, malware itself, license authentication, DRM decoding, and etc other bothers caused by the crap that this illegal monopoly has forced on us.

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    1. Re:NO! by Porchroof · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Boy, you've got a burr up your butt. Microsoft became a "monopoly" because it sold products that people wanted. (My guess is that you were still sucking your mommy's titty when Bill started the company.)

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  4. Re:Did not bash M$ hard enough. by twitter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    of course it didn't bash Microsoft hard enough for you. Unless they're bashed into the ground tirelessly, it's never enough.

    Wow, that's rich. Fuck off, stalker, and take your filthy writing back to Redmond where it belongs.

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