{"id":128766,"date":"2021-10-09T04:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T11:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/microsoft-is-the-first-big-company-to-commit-to-right-to-repair"},"modified":"2021-10-09T04:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T11:23:15","slug":"microsoft-is-the-first-big-company-to-commit-to-right-to-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/microsoft-is-the-first-big-company-to-commit-to-right-to-repair","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Is the First Big Company to Commit to Right to Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back in June, the investor advocacy nonprofit As You Sow <\/em>had filed a shareholder resolution<\/a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting that Microsoft examine the \u201cenvironmental and social benefits of making its devices more easily repairable through measures such as the public provision of tools, parts, and repair instructions.\u201d Prior to that resolution, Microsoft\u2014like many tech companies\u2014had essentially rigged the game so that its devices could only be fixed at authorized shops, effectively creating a monopoly on repairs that stifled consumer freedom and made everyone\u2019s lives harder.<\/p>\n

But on Thursday, Grist<\/a> reported that Microsoft has now made a series of critical concessions as a result of that resolution, including a pledge to hire an independent consultant to study the ways increasing access to the parts and information could cut down on electronic waste and lessen damaging environmental impacts, and a commitment to acting on the findings of that study by the end of 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an encouraging step by Microsoft to respond to the upswell of federal and state activity in the right to repair movement,\u201d Kelly McBee, waste program coordinator at As You Sow, said in a press release<\/a>. \u201cExcitingly, this agreement will begin to allow consumers to repair their Microsoft devices outside the limited network of authorized repair shops.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in June, the investor advocacy nonprofit As You Sow had filed a shareholder resolution with the Securities and Exchange Commission requesting that Microsoft examine the \u201cenvironmental and social benefits of making its devices more easily repairable through measures such as the public provision of tools, parts, and repair instructions.\u201d Prior to that resolution, Microsoft\u2014like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}