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200million is the estimated cost to capture just "75%" of Microsoft's carbon footprint in 2022. A footprint that is going to increase by more than 7.5% of the 2

by iinnPP 3y ago

200million is the estimated cost to capture just "75%" of Microsoft's carbon footprint in 2022. A footprint that is going to increase by more than 7.5% of the 2022 carbon footprint year over year("Bing" chat). How about disabling all the spyware and garbageware. Then get to fixing the monstrosity that is Win11. Some Googling and math suggests about 100,000,000 tonnes of CO2 is coming from the bloat on Windows(per year). Microsoft claims there are 1.4billion devices using Windows. *Napkin math

scottcha 3y ago
Microsoft's officially reported carbon numbers don't include the impact of their software on devices sold by other OEMs. This is a gray area of the GHG protocol on how to account for SW carbon emissions; some companies count it some don't. [https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW15mgm https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW... pp 11.]
hinkley 3y ago
It always amazes me how we can sweat bullets trying to get page load times down and then someone slaps google’s and someone else’s tracking shit onto it and everything grinds to a halt, but that’s okay.
- jimnotgym 3y ago
  It sounds to me like the problem there is that Google is the gatekeeper, in that your ranking depends on their page speed metric, and also inserting their own tracking code which they get to decide to exclude from the metric
  - hinkley 3y ago
    SEO matters, but so does customer experience and they’ve begun to diverge. With SaaS, which we are, I occasionally catch customers who have managed to get two or three copies of analytics in their pages, with different ids. It’s just… Exasperating. I think I need to switch disciplines. Nobody who has tried to fix this one has made large inroads.
refulgentis 3y ago
Are all Windows PCs are getting charged to Microsoft's carbon footprint? $200M/year quite a steal if so
- iinnPP 3y ago
  The math from the article suggests a hard no.

by iinnPP 3y ago

scottcha 3y ago

Microsoft's officially reported carbon numbers don't include the impact of their software on devices sold by other OEMs. This is a gray area of the GHG protocol on how to account for SW carbon emissions; some companies count it some don't. [https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW15mgm https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RW... pp 11.]

hinkley 3y ago

It always amazes me how we can sweat bullets trying to get page load times down and then someone slaps google’s and someone else’s tracking shit onto it and everything grinds to a halt, but that’s okay.

jimnotgym 3y ago
It sounds to me like the problem there is that Google is the gatekeeper, in that your ranking depends on their page speed metric, and also inserting their own tracking code which they get to decide to exclude from the metric
- hinkley 3y ago
  SEO matters, but so does customer experience and they’ve begun to diverge. With SaaS, which we are, I occasionally catch customers who have managed to get two or three copies of analytics in their pages, with different ids. It’s just… Exasperating. I think I need to switch disciplines. Nobody who has tried to fix this one has made large inroads.

refulgentis 3y ago

Are all Windows PCs are getting charged to Microsoft's carbon footprint? $200M/year quite a steal if so

iinnPP 3y ago
The math from the article suggests a hard no.