Overall this is a great cross functional success with the teams of softwaredevelopment, sustainability organization and facility management in energy savings and energy efficiency initiations.
Accepting that there is an undisputed need for softwaredevelopment to globalize, a proper strategy must be implemented in order to engage teams across the globe, preserve knowledge, optimize productivity and gain expected innovation from the different locations.
But with the sort of mean softwaredevelopmentteams Google is famous for, Microsoft needs to get on the defensive in order to maintain its lead with enterprise customers.