Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Windows 7 Battery Woes Completely Disproved

From Paul Thurrott (SuperSite for Windows) 09/02/10:

Microsoft on Monday issued a lengthy statement about the recent Windows 7 battery controversy, echoing my assessment from earlier in the day but backing it up with cold, hard evidence. Put simply, Windows 7 is not responsible for any battery life issues that customers have reported via its support forums.

"Windows 7 is correctly warning [about] batteries that are in fact failing and Windows 7 is neither incorrectly reporting on battery status nor in any way whatsoever causing batteries to reach this state," Microsoft president Steven Sinofsky wrote in the Engineering Windows 7 Blog. "We are seeing nothing more than the normal course of battery degradation over time ... In every case we have been able to identify the battery being reported on was in fact in need of recommended replacement."

personal injury lawyersI can’t say I’ve noticed any negative effects with using Windows 7 on a laptop (that previously ran XP) battery-related or otherwise. I’m still rather in awe of the fact I’ve successfully installed Windows 7 on my 5 year old Sony Vaio laptop and seems to run it as well as it well as it did XP.  I run Windows 7 across all of my PCs now and have absolutely no complaints.  On my laptop, the battery life certainly seems comparable with what I was getting under XP.

That this story grew so big in the first place is a testimony to people’s naiveté coupled with a truck-load of scaremongering.

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8 comments:

  1. Stephen10 February 2010 at 16:24

    There was a similar situation when Ubuntu bundled a hard disc check with the default installation of their latest version last October - it would scan your hard drive for bad sectors and if it had more than a certain threshold it would warn you.

    Naturally a lot of people's older hard drives failed the test the moment they installed 9.10. There were similar complaints about Ubuntu 9.10 killing your hard drive.

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  2. Android10 February 2010 at 19:12

    I think I'll wait for Windows 8... I'm only just getting used to Vista!

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  3. Michael11 February 2010 at 08:49

    Nah, you should give Windows 7 a try, Andro. Unlike so many people, I didn't have a problem with Vista but find using 7 infinitely better :-)

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  4. Android11 February 2010 at 17:58

    I think I can find a better use for £200 quid to be honest with you! :))

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  5. Michael11 February 2010 at 18:11

    Ouch!! I wouldn't fancy paying that. :p

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  6. Android12 February 2010 at 18:58

    So your copy of win 7 is illegal? ;D

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  7. Michael12 February 2010 at 19:07

    Absolutely not... I'm fully legal! :-)

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  8. Android12 February 2010 at 23:20

    Sure, keep telling yourself that ;D

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