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| Time: 01:05 EST/06:05 GMT | News Source: Engineering Windows 7 | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Over the past week we have seen a little bit of blogosphere activity regarding Windows 7 and batteries, specifically the new Windows 7 message “Considering replacing your battery”. Since this is related to the engineering of Windows 7 we’re going to use this blog to provide an update to people. As we have talk about many times, we have a relentless focus on the quality of Windows 7 and we take seriously any reports we receive that indicate a potential problem that could result in a significant failure of the OS. In a previous post we talked about the steps we take when we receive a bug report, in particular when we start to see several reports that appear to be the same. For the past week or so we have been diligently working through these steps and more to see if there is anything in Windows 7 we need to address regarding this issue. At this time we have no reason to believe there is any issue related to Windows 7 in this context. | ||
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| #1 By 45754 (62.140.137.126) at 2/9/2010 3:27:22 AM |
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"Microsoft has received 12 customer service incidents in addition to pulling 8 additional incidents from various forums. To date (for a total of 20 incidents), none of these have shown anything other than degraded batteries."
So that's the whole Windows world falling over Windows 7 because of 20 incidents, nice ;) |
| #2 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 2/9/2010 9:43:14 AM |
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I have a battery indicator status Icon in my Task Bar. Only problem is, it's a desktop :)
And there's no USB cable connected to the UPS. |
| #3 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/10/2010 9:34:23 AM |
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I see two different issues here:
Number one is the message about replacing the battery; I do not see it and people i spoke with did not mention it so I am not commenting on it. Number two is the fact that W7 drain batteries faster than Xp or Vista; here things become trickier: I can see how Aero and some other services could increase battery consumption but I personally saw laptops that loading W7 last half hour and loading Vista last one and a half hour. The difference is obviously substantial and, in my opinion, should not be downplayed or dismissed. Again it could be that some particular service drain the batteries therefore modifying the way the preset options in Power Settings would fix the issue quickly but ignoring the problem does not seem to be, at least in the long term, the best option. |
| #4 By 89249 (64.207.240.90) at 2/10/2010 9:45:53 AM |
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#3 Dead on.
Granted I've yet to put 7 on a laptop but I know a few people who have noticed it does drain the battery noticeably faster. Hopefully that gets resolved soon. |
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