The industry and certainly Microsoft has started to focus on Green issues. In particular our focus has been targeted on power management, which is where I think that we can have the most to impact the environment with software which puts machines in "sleep" states when they are not being used, optimization of machine utilization so that machines are not sitting idle while new machines are being purchased and there is some level of reporting of how much applications cost to run.
However, being Green means a whole lot more. Are the employees working from home to reduce transportation costs, do they put on transportation with reduces the carbon trace for people that have to come into work and what is happening to all those machines which come to an end-of-life. Finally, how do we report it?
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