Whitehall saves £7 million with greener IT – Computerworld UK Whitehall has extended the life of PCs, made double-sided printing the default option, made sure computers are turned off at night, increased the reuse of IT equipment and increased server…
Greener Windows 7 Packaging
While reading up on Windows 7 RTM rumors (update: not yet, but close), I came across this Windows 7 Team Blog post from a couple of weeks ago. Those of you picking up a copy will notice that Microsoft…
Windows 7 Gets Serious About Power Management
Need another reason to love Windows 7? According to Microsoft, Windows 7 will give green IT pros a reason to smile thanks to new power management features built into the OS. Here’s one: New Diagnostics: new tools will help improve…
Shortcut to Windows 7 Power Settings Switching
Hate wading through your control panel to quickly adjust Windows 7’s power settings? How To Geek has a quick and easy guide on switching power profiles on the fly with desktop shortcuts or a hotkey. It takes the tiniest effort…
Windows 7 (and Hyper-V) to Make for Momentous October
Windows 7 isn’t the only big thing coming out of Microsoft on October, not for eco-techies at least. VIrtualization Review spotted this little nugget about Hyper-V that nearly got lost in the excitement.At the very end of the Windows 7…
Windows 7 *Hearts* Solid State Drives
The difference between SSDs and traditional hard drives go well beyond energy savings and fast I/O rates. There are some fundamental ways flash chips store data, which makes regular defrag and other drive optimization techniques that operating systems employ unsuitable…
Windows 7 Enlists Virtualization for XP Compatability
Backward compatibility has been a boon for Microsoft, but also a thorn in its side when it comes to advancing the OS. Thanks to everyone’s favorite green IT technology, virtualization, not to mention capable multi-core processors and oodles of RAM,…
