The continuing saga of what other folks are doing. Survey says, the best way to implement change in your organization is to point to what the competition is doing.
Mineral Oil Submerged Computing from Puget Computers.
Via now has ultra-low power laptops.
China goes with crush and zap to recycle circuit boards.
Walmart and Sam's club are now hosting eWaste recycling events.
And Apple's CFO says Microsoft's no threat.
If you have been reading ecoIron for a while, you would know that I have knocked MS for some time now. Like here. Or here. Or here. Wow, there's about 5 more articles too.
But today is different because there is some neat news to report; the William J Clinton Foundation and Microsoft have announced a partnership to develop new technology tools to help large cities create, track and share strategies to reduce carbon emissions. In particular, the software tools aim to create a standardised way for cities all around the world to measure their greenhouse gas emissions.
It sounds like the former president thought of the idea, as it is "part of a broader set of programs being introduced by the foundation". Still, my sense is that MS has a few guys around who can build this thing right (it's going to be web-based and collaborative) and fast (expect a first release before the end of 2007). I eagerly await the results.
The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs is a very funny blog, where the author pretends to be Steve Jobs. So to answer the question that I had when I first went to the site (and had to do some Internet research to find the answer) - No, Steve Jobs does not write this stuff. But it's funny.
How funny? Funny enough to read every day. Funny enough for me to laugh out loud while my cat stares at me in irritation, because it's just us two.
'Steve' is talking about Vista today, claiming it is MS's Waterloo. He has a follow up post where he refers to it as the platform for losers. You know, he just might have a point, it is uncool to use Windows these days. I've rephrased it a little in my title, cast a new spin on it, added my two cents, that kind of thing. It might not be so bad if they could stop getting sued, or they didn't admit failure, or if Dell and Goldman Sachs were still on their side in the battle.
Did I mention that they keep getting sued? Flushy.
