Do We Have to Turn Everything Into Microsoft vs. Google?

CNET: Microsoft vs. Google: Who's Greener?

Interesting article, although it perpetuates two silly, false, corporate-media cliches. The first has to do with greener-than-thou. Who cares? We're all in this together. It isn't a race where the winner gets to live on a healthy planet and the losers die from climate disruption. If we all don't win, we all go down.

Second is the tiresome and ultimately pointless Microsoft-vs.-Google competition. Google is doing some exciting things, although its power and influence are worrisome. Microsoft is a big, fat, slow lost cause and cannot even upgrade its own creaky, worm-infested software, let alone compete in the new digital economy.

Still, it's great that both companies actually think about, and are doing something about, sustainable living.

-- Paul Andrews, GreenforGood

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