http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/microsoft-digital-downloads-save-carbon-and-costs-571 Enhancing business with technology - in association with eweek.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/microsoft-digital-downloads-save-carbon-and-costs-571#comment-49 Terence Phillip Curran Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:35:57 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/news-green-it/microsoft-digital-downloads-save-carbon-and-costs-571#comment-49 How much does it cost to download the latest version of MS Office (all 700MB of it). Until vendors reduce the size of their downloads I don't see any saving in CO2 emmisions! Any why do they insist that you obtain a new version of their software every few years, that is incompatible with previous versions, so every few years you need to spend more ££££ and create more CO2 to download the latest version. How much does it cost to download the latest version of MS Office (all 700MB of it). Until vendors reduce the size of their downloads I don’t see any saving in CO2 emmisions! Any why do they insist that you obtain a new version of their software every few years, that is incompatible with previous versions, so every few years you need to spend more ££££ and create more CO2 to download the latest version.

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