[mjhnghfh]

Because the consultant charged $2M for that advice. In most corporates you leave the machine on because everytime you boot it spends 10mins connecting to various corporate fileshares, 10mins syncing profiles, 10mins downloading updates etc. And you can't set it to hibernate/sleep because you don't have admin rights.

If you are feeling really green you turn off the monitor.

If companies really cared about the environment they would question why they needed 100,000s of people to drive to a downtown office block to sit in front of computers doing the electronic equivalent of pushing forms around the company.

[mbreese]

This was at the corporate IT level, so they can control when the machines are powered on and off. Presumably, they could have them power on 30 minutes before staff arrived in the morning.

I think that you went off on a little too much of a green tangent there.

The question is if they are telling Office software to save and close documents, why aren't they just hibernating the machines to save the entire state? The only time I can think of them needing to restart would be for some updates, but I'm not familiar with how a machine handles file shares when hibernating..

[thwarted]

10mins syncing profiles, 10mins downloading updates

If you never reboot on Windows, these things never happen, and all the automated copy-to-the-server backups, profile syncing and updates are for naught.

[eru]

Interesting how the incentives play out.

(DVCS show similar things in reverse---by making merges much cheaper, they change the workflow, too.)