http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/01/microsoft-on-vista-landfill-effect-environmental-issues-important-to-us-all/ The Executive's Daily Green Briefing Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:02:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/01/microsoft-on-vista-landfill-effect-environmental-issues-important-to-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-64817 Richard Creasey Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:33:54 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2007/02/01/microsoft-on-vista-landfill-effect-environmental-issues-important-to-us-all/#comment-64817 So far I have owned vista for 2 months and had 20+ upgrades. Today the upgrade took nearly 40 mins and i could not access the machine. This implies that , if multiplied by the number of Vista users (increasing at > 10 million per month according to microsoft), then 100,s of megawatthrs of electricity is being used per year to support these updates. As the generation of a megawatthr of electricity puts several 100 kgs co2 into the atmosphere , Microsoft cannot claim a low carbon footprint for Vista, they should have sorted it before sending it out.I am changing to linux, a lower carbon operating system. So far I have owned vista for 2 months and had 20+ upgrades. Today the upgrade took nearly 40 mins and i could not access the machine. This implies that , if multiplied by the number of Vista users (increasing at > 10 million per month according to microsoft), then 100,s of megawatthrs of electricity is being used per year to support these updates. As the generation of a megawatthr of electricity puts several 100 kgs co2 into the atmosphere , Microsoft cannot claim a low carbon footprint for Vista, they should have sorted it before sending it out.I am changing to linux, a lower carbon operating system.

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