Microsoft is re-considering its approach to right-to-repair following pressure from shareholders.
As reported by Grist (via VG247), the shareholder advocacy group As You Sow filed a report in June urging Microsoft to analyse the “environmental and social benefits” of making device repair easier, so that consumers can repair their own tech.
Kelly McBee, the waste program coordinator at As You Sow, initially met with the company who “presented a very antagonistic view of repair.”
Microsoft will now run its own study into how increasing accessibility of parts could help reduce electronic waste and will take action by the end of next year.