Microsoft’s president Brad Smith warned that the software king of the world would stop having “deep partnerships” with companies with no interest in becoming more sustainable.
Smith talked at the COP26 conference in Glasgow, of which Vole is a principal partner.
The vendor used the conference to reiterate its target of becoming carbon negative by 2030 and removing all the carbon the company emitted from the environment since its founding by 2050.
“There are some things we sell that are just off the shelf. For example, we provide Windows and Office, and I don’t see us navigating to a future where we decide what we think of you before we sell you our technology”, Smith told the Beeb.
“I don’t think that’s going to make for a better country or a better world. We may get to a point where we say we won’t partner deeply and provide, say AI, partnerships with companies that have no interest in improving their environmental footprint while they’re pumping oil out of the earth.”
