Comments on Innovation Evangelist: Microsoft- World's Biggest Green Engine

Well said Shah. For the sake of argument, let'...

2009-11-30T12:00:52.430+05:30

Well said Shah.
For the sake of argument, let's replace the word Microsoft with Computers Softwares and IT.
In that case, would you still agree that IT has been less of Green?
As always every innovation brings about its own tyranny. IT and Computers is no exception!
As for MS and for innovation at large, franky speaking what matters is Diffusion. A great idea has to travel from Labs to Markets. MS did it like no other firm on earth.
Am not a great advocate of MS' practices, but I surely see this firm resulting in a great, irreversable change!

MS making an impact on reducing paper consumption ...

2009-11-29T17:48:40.688+05:30

MS making an impact on reducing paper consumption is not valid. There are a good amount of studies which prove that digital diffusion has indeed increased paper consumption. All the tools you list in the blog were invented elsewhere and adapted and marketed by MS. MS is a great marketing company, with some original innovations to its credit. And coming back to the core of your blog - innovation, MS has in many ways blocked innovation rather than furthering it - Browser, Web Standards, OS Security and many more.

The sustainability dimension of MS or any IT product would not be sensible arguement. Increased adoption digital devices consumes equally good amount of resources and generates toxic emissions. If the computers were never invented or not as pervasive as today, don't you think we might have developed in a different way and would have no incentive to write/print millions of pages of documents.

The article throws a different perspective. So, I ...

2009-11-05T14:56:22.135+05:30

The article throws a different perspective. So, I do agree with some of the views and disagree also at some of the places
Rupesh