Microsoft announces the Green Software Foundation to promote sustainable app development

In partnership with Accenture, GitHub, and ThoughtWorks, Microsoft today announced the launch of the Green Software Foundation, a nonprofit established with the Linux Foundation to build an ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and practices to reduce carbon emissions caused by software development. Microsoft says that the foundation was born out of a mutual desire to collaborate across the software industry on sustainability and “green” engineering principles.

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