Microsoft One Step From World's Greenest Company

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday November 16, 2006 @12:40AM 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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Re:Of course, wasn't it Microsoft.... by andrewbaldwin · 2006-11-16 02:05 · Score: 0, Redundant

I wish I had mod points right now

This is as clearly articulated and cogent an argument as I've seen for a while.

Just as Parkinson's law (wikipedia) applies to work, bloat and excessive "functionality" soaks up gains in Moore's law.