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Still quite lightweight, Microsoft have finally, with their 2010 corporate citizenship report, produced a report following the GRI reporting guidelines.

Hopefully this is the beginning of proper CR reporting from Microsoft.

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Since its inception, the Connector has helped remove over 18 million employee car miles from Seattle area roadways, and our CO2 calculations estimate over 17 million lbs of CO2 emissions from vehicles saved.

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Shame, guilt, and embarrassment are always good tools to change people’s behavior. This morning Microsoft added a “score” functionality to its energy management tool Hohm, which gives a Hohm score to every address entered based on how energy efficient the building is.

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Microsoft released a new survey that suggests only 8 percent of utilities around the world have completed their smart grid technology implementations while 37 percent have projects underway and more than half haven’t yet started.

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If Google Inc. decides to close the door on its search engine in China, it might open a door for Microsoft Corp.

The software giant's Bing search engine is among the potential beneficiaries if Google goes ahead with its threat to close its Google.cn site amid a dispute with the Chinese government over censorship.

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In conjunction with CERA Week in Houston, we today released findings from a Microsoft survey of worldwide utility executives about the implementation and effects of the smart grid. The results? Disruptive!

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Data Center Dynamics magazine honored Microsoft's efforts with the Datacenter Leaders Award 2009 for Innovation in the Mega Datacenter category for Microsoft’s new Dublin datacenter. The awards were created to recognize achievements in sustainability, efficiency and true innovation in datacenter design and operations across public and private sectors in the UK, Ireland and Europe.

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Intel has designs on the nascent home energy management business, following Google, Microsoft, Apple, Panasonic, and dozens of smaller tech companies.

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It’s beginning to become clear that Google’s push back on China has become a watershed moment in the history of industrial globalization and everyone is struggling for context. It’s important to consider the increasing anxiety in the US over the rising economic power & competitiveness of China as we address the core question: should Microsoft, Google & everyone else head for the airport and get out of China now in the interests of human rights?

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13 members of Microsoft's staff will be in Copenhagen as a delegation of issue and technology experts supporting the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP15).

They are participating in a series of briefings, events, and partnership launches to showcase the power of information technology to help address the daunting energy and climate challenges the world faces.

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"At a joint webcast, hosted by Warren Causey of Energy Central, OSIsoft and Microsoft will discuss Microsoft's Smart Energy Reference Architecture (SERA), a document intended to help utilities understand how Microsoft technologies address their implementation of the smart grid and smart energy ecosystem."

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"Microsoft and Intel engineers were able to reduce power usage of a Windows 7 laptop nearly 20 percent over an identical laptop running Windows Vista SP2."

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"You will have spotted the ballyhoo by now - Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system is out today. And, rather as when Microsoft launched Vista three years ago, the company is trumpeting its energy-saving credentials. Windows 7 offers "more than just lip service" on eco-friendly features.

Seemingly "Apple machines running with Apple operating systems use little more than half as much power as either Apples or PCs that are running Vista" - I did not know that!

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"Microsoft recently updated itscomputer purchasing standards to make sure that all the PCs we buy for our employees meet the latest energy efficiency standards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Microsoft now requires that all PCs purchased through our standard MS IT channels will meet EPA Energy Star 5.0 requirements."

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Microsoft and our partners are preparing for the increasing sophistication and automation of the grid, including the entry of a new type of energy consumer who is also an energy producer and source of stored energy.

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Microsoft recently opened Redmond Ridge 1, the company’s first purpose-built Research and Development Support (R&DS) facility designed specifically to consolidate computer labs from the main Redmond campus and house servers used in the development and testing of its software products.

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Microsoft has signed up as a participant and an endorser of the EU code of conduct for data center efficiency. Microsoft said its data centers are currently operating with an average PUE of 1.6 and that it is targeting a PUE of below 1.2.

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Environmental Sustainability Strategy, which focuses on three core areas:

Using information technology to dramatically improve energy efficiency
Accelerating research breakthroughs and
Demonstrating responsible environmental leadership at home.

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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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