Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company

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?

Comments

Good lord!

[Anonymous Coward]

Install Linux! Pollute the Earth!!!!!1111

In other news...

[lennart78]

Car companies could drastically reduce emissions is they would would just limit all internal combustion engines at 3000rpm. Think of what this would do for emission levels.
Or that the engine would shut itself down if you let it run stationary for 30 seconds.

I think I just solved the entire global warming issue!
Onwards to the meaning of life!

Re:Stupid blog entry

[Trailwalker]

This blogger should lead by example and turn his machine off.

Permanently.

Did no one realise this one?

[forgotten_my_nick]

1. Invest in energy companies.
2. Change software to burn more energy.
3. Profit!

Microsoft is one line of code away from greenest

[jdbartlett]

Microsoft is just one line away from becoming the greenest company on earth:

RGB(0,256,0)

It's like green, but it's "one more" than green. It's the greenest.

I haven't seen an app this green since I switched from AS/400.

Hey Linux power management is great

[Colin Smith]

I've just turned powersave features to ma