MANILA, Philippines -- The international environmentalist group Greenpeace warned of a potential “deluge” of electronic waste or “E-waste” as companies and individual users replace their computers to achieve compatibility with Microsoft’s new Vista operating system.
Greenpeace cited a study conducted by US technology marketer SoftChoice Corporation of inventory data representing 112,000 PCs from more than 472 organizations, which showed that “50% of the PCs inventoried are below Windows Vista's basic system requirements” and “94% are not ready for Windows Vista Premium edition.”
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