Enviroment,logo and verson of Microsoft Windows

In 2011, Greenpeace released a report rating the top ten big brands in cloud computing on their sources of electricity for their data centers. At the time, data centers consumed up to 2% of all global electricity and this amount was projected to increase. Phil Radford of Greenpeace said "we are concerned that this new explosion in electricity use could lock us into old, polluting energy sources instead of the clean energy

available today,” and called on "Amazon, Microsoft and other leaders of the information-technology industry must embrace clean energy to power their cloud-based data centers."  In 2013, Microsoft agreed to buy power generated by a Texas wind project to power one of its data centers. Microsoft is ranked on the 17th place in Greenpeace's Guide to Greener Electronics (16th Edition) that ranks 18 electronics manufacturers according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling and climate change. Microsoft's timeline for phasing out brominated flame retardant (BFRs) and phthalates in all products is 2012 but its commitment to phasing out PVC is not clear. As of January 2011, it has no products that are completely free from PVC and BFRs.

Microsoft's main U.S. campus received a silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program in 2008, and it installed over 2,000 solar panels on top of its buildings in its Silicon Valley campus, generating approximately 15 percent of the total energy needed by the facilities in April 2005.  Microsoft makes use of alternative forms of transit. It created one of the world's largest personal bus systems, the "Connector", to transport people from exterior the company; for on-campus transportation, the "Shuttle Connect" uses a large fleet of hybrid cars to save fuel. The company also subsidises regional public transport, provided by Sound Transit and King County Metro, as an inducement. In February 2010 however, Microsoft took a carriage against adding additional community transport and high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes to the State Route 520 and its suspended bridge connecting Redmond to Seattle; the company did not desire to holdup the construction any further.  Microsoft was ranked number 1 in the register of the World's Best Multinational Workplaces by the Great position to Work Institute in 2011. The company headquarters, casually known as the Microsoft Redmond campus, is situated at One Microsoft Way in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft at first moved onto the grounds of the campus on February 26, 1986, weeks before the corporation went public on March 13. The headquarters has since experienced manifold expansions since its establishment. It is predictable to encompass over 8 million ft² (750,000 m²) of office space and 30,000–40,000 employees.  Supplementary offices are situated in Bellevue and Issaquah (90,000 employees universal). The company is planning to get better its Mountain View, California campus on a grand scale. The company has occupied this campus since 1981. The company is grounding to purchase the 32-acre campus.  The plan submitted engage expanding the campus by 25%. It is predictable that it will take three years to complete the expansion. If accepted,

construction will begin in untimely on 2017. On October 26, 2015, the company opened its flagship trade location on Fifth Street in New York City. The position features a five-story glass storefront and is 22,270 square feet.  As per company executives, Microsoft had been on the lookout for a flagship position since 2009.  The company's trade locations are part of a superior plan to help build a connection with its consumers. The opening of the store coincided with the open of the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4.  Notably, the next floor has a immense area designated for customers to play Xbox games. The third floor has been named the "Dell Experience at the Microsoft Store," which showcases various Dell harvest. The fourth floor is for employees and administrative operations. The fifth floor has been designed as a pseudo-conference center, as it will clutch events and meetings. On November 12, 2015, Microsoft opened a second flagship store, located in Sydney's Pitt Street Mall.  The two-storey, 6000 sq ft location features Microsoft's flagship products as well as the Surface line and Xbox One; there is also an Answer Desk on site for customers to get creation carry. Microsoft approved the so-called "Pac-Man Logo", designed by Scott Baker, in 1987. Baker stated "The fresh logo, in Helvetica italic type, has a slash between the o and s to emphasize the "soft" part of the name and express action and speed. Dave Norris ran an internal joke campaign to put aside the aged logo, that was green, in all uppercase, and featured a fanciful letter O, nicknamed the blibbet, but it was not needed. Microsoft's logo with the tagline "You’re potential. Our passion." – Below the main business name – is based on a slogan Microsoft used in 2008. In 2002, the company in progress using the logo in the United States and finally started a TV campaign with the slogan, distorted from the earlier tagline of "Where do you want to go today?"  While the personal MGX (Microsoft Global Exchange) discussion in 2010, Microsoft unveiled the company's then tagline, "Be What's Next." They besides had a slogan/tagline "Making it all make sense." On August 23, 2012, Microsoft unveiled a new business logo at the begging of its 23rd Microsoft store in Boston, representing the company's shift of heart from the classic method to the tile-centric current interface, which it uses/will use on the Windows Phone platform, Xbox 360, Windows 8 and the future Office Suites. The new symbol also includes four squares with the colors of the then-current Windows logo which have been used to stand for Microsoft's four main products: Windows (blue), Office (red), Xbox (green) and Bing (yellow). The logo resembles the beginning of one of the commercials for Windows 95. Microsoft Windows (or basically Windows) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of working systems, every of which provide to a positive sector of the computing industry with the OS classically linked with IBM PC compatible planning. Active Windows families contain Windows NT, Windows Embedded as well as Windows Phone; these might include subfamilies, e.g. Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server. Obsolete Windows families take in Windows 9x; Windows 10 Mobile is an vigorous product, unconnected to the invalid family Windows Mobile. Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating arrangement shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).  Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer (PC) market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. Apple came to see Windows as an unfair encroachment on their innovation in GUI development as implemented on products such as the Lisa and Macintosh (eventually

settled in court in Microsoft's favor in 1993). On PCs, Windows is still the most popular operating system. However, in 2014, Microsoft admitted losing the majority of the overall operating system market to Android, because of the massive growth in sales of Android smart phones. In 2014, the number of Windows devices sold were less than 25% of Android devices sold. This comparison, however, may not be fully relevant as the two operating systems traditionally targeted dissimilar platforms. because of September 2016, the most current version of Windows for PCs, tablets, Smartphone’s and embedded devices is Windows 10. The most topical versions for server computers is Windows Server 2016. A particular version of Windows runs on the Xbox One game console. Microsoft, the developer of Windows, has registered more than a few trademarks every of which denote a family of Windows operating systems that goal an exact sector of the computing industry. As of 2014, the next Windows families are being aggressively developed: Windows NT: happening as a family of operating system through Windows NT 3.1, an operating arrangement for server computers and workstations. It now consists of three operating arrangement subfamilies that are released approximately at the same time and share the similar kernel. It is almost impossible for someone unfamiliar with the subject to identify the members of this family by name because they do not hold fast to any explicit rule; e.g. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 as well as Windows RT are members of this family but Windows 3.1 is not. Windows: The operating classification for mainstream personal computers, tablets and smartphones. The latest version is Windows 10. The major competitor of this relations is macOS by Apple Inc. for private computers and Android for mobile devices (c.f. Usage divide of in use systems § Market divide by category). Windows Server: The operating system for server computers. The latest version is Windows Server 2016. Unlike its client’s sibling, it has adopted a strong naming scheme. The main contestant of this family is Linux. (C.f. Usage share of operating systems § Market split by category) Windows PE: A lightweight version of its Windows sibling predestined to function as a live operating system, used for installing Windows on bare-metal computers (particularly on a

lot of computers at once), recuperation or troubleshooting purposes. The latest version is Windows PE 10.0.10586.0. Windows Embedded: originally, Microsoft developed Windows CE as a general-purpose operating arrangement for each device that was in addition resource-limited to be called a developed computer. Eventually, though, Windows CE was renamed Windows Embedded dense and was folded under Windows Compact trademark which also consists of Windows Embedded Industry, Windows Embedded Professional, Windows Embedded Standard, Windows Embedded Handheld as well as Windows Embedded Automotive.  The following Windows families are no longer creature developed:

Windows 9x: An operating arrangement that targeted customers market. Microsoft at the present caters to the customers’ bazaar with Windows NT. Windows Mobile: The forerunner to Windows Phone, it was a mobile phone operating arrangement. The earliest version was called Pocket PC 2000; the third version, Windows Mobile 2003 is the earliest version to take on the Windows Mobile trademark. The previous version is Windows Mobile 6.5. Windows Phone: An operating arrangement sold merely to manufacturers of smart phones. The original version was Windows Phone 7, followed by Windows Phone 8, and the previous version Windows Phone 8.1. It was succeeded by Windows 10 Mobile.