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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 carbon emissions compared to producing and shipping a DVD and its associated packaging through traditional retail distribution channels.

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the fundamental cheapness of energy meant that you could “make things manifest” with regard mostly to the cost of their materials and labor; this often went along with limited regard for energy use, and no regard for emissions and other “footprint” metrics. But that was before energy got expensive and stayed expensive, and before concerns about climate change and other environmental problems became widespread.

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