I did an essay on this last week as part of my degree finals.
There's quite a lot to take into consideration here,
Do we re-use?
Do we re-distribute?
Do we re-cycle?
And at a time when microsoft are seeing their profits falling, are they going to allow people to be satisfied with their current computer, or are they going to force people to upgrade to their new program suites that can only run on the fastest computers.
I worked out that there's going to be around 250,000,000 computers thrown away over the next 5 years, that's alot of lead, gold, glass and copper being thrown away
If you're interested in reading it, It's here
Dermot
(Written and distributed on an old pentium.)
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I did an essay on this last week as part of my degree finals.
There's quite a lot to take into consideration here,
Do we re-use?
Do we re-distribute?
Do we re-cycle?
And at a time when microsoft are seeing their profits falling, are they going to allow people to be satisfied with their current computer, or are they going to force people to upgrade to their new program suites that can only run on the fastest computers.
I worked out that there's going to be around 250,000,000 computers thrown away over the next 5 years, that's alot of lead, gold, glass and copper being thrown away
If you're interested in reading it,
It's here
Dermot
(Written and distributed on an old pentium.)