Gay marriage wouldn’t have passed in the Washington state Legislature this year without Gov. Chris Gregoire’s decision to reverse course and push for it. Legislators’ personal pleas to colleagues, as epitomized by Republican Rep. Maureen Walsh’s passionate floor speech about her desire to throw her daughter a wedding someday, also played [...]

Rep. Smith, R-N.J.:”They [Microsoft] need to get on the right side of human rights rather than enabling tyranny, which they’re doing right now.” There has been much talk about Google’s decision to pull out of China while Microsoft has remained directly complicit in Chinese internet censorship.  Today a bipartisan U.S. Congressional panel praised Google’s actions, [...]

Microsoft Corp. late Monday said a Chinese rule that personal computers sold in the country include Web filtering software raises issues of freedom of expression, privacy, and security that “need to be properly addressed.” The statement by the U.S. software giant came after a U.S. computer industry association denounced the Chinese move and the largest [...]

En août 2008, Greenpeace avait montré du doigt l’exploitation de l’Afrique comme un dépotoir pour les déchets électroniques du reste du monde. Aujourd’hui, HP et Microsoft se penchent sur un continent oublié par le « green IT ». L’Afrique reste encore et surtout la poubelle électronique du reste du monde, comme l’a montré Greenpeace dans [...]

Forced leave, wage reductions, hiring freezes and shorter hours simply did not do enough. A year into this recession, companies across the board are resorting to mass job cuts. Home Depot, Caterpillar, Sprint Nextel and at least eight other companies announced on Monday they would cut more than 75,000 jobs in the US and around [...]

When the full scope and horror of the Nazi wartime atrocities began to emerge after World War II, many member states of the newly formed United Nations (UN) began calling for an international law outlining and protecting the fundamental rights and freedoms of all individuals on the planet. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), [...]

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo and a group of human rights and public interest organizations plan to introduce Wednesday a global code of conduct that they say will better protect online free speech and privacy against government intrusion. The principles are the starting point for a new effort, called the Global Network Initiative, which commits the [...]

Microsoft’s “green” initiatives have generated quite a bit of buzz lately. What does this mean for Microsoft employees? Francois Ajenstat, Director of Environmental Sustainability here at Microsoft, stopped by JobsBlog to answer a few of my questions. Who are the Greenies? And what’s with those new compostable forks and green cups in the [...]

Eh oui, il ne faut reculer devant rien pour effectuer la moindre petite économie d’énergie, ce qui, indirectement, limite la production de dioxyde de carbone. Comment, me direz-vous ? Et bien c’est beaucoup plus simple qu’il n’y parait et c’est ce qu’on voulu mettre en avant à la fois Microsoft et Verdiem en créant en [...]

Just days before the Olympic torch will reach Beijing, Internet leaders Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft say they are close to an agreement on a code of conduct for doing business in China and other countries that censor the Internet.Sen. Dick Durbin on Monday released separate letters from the companies, stating they have “reached agreement on [...]