Reducing Power Consumption with Windows 7’s Power Management Features

Microsoft’s Environmental Sustainability Blog has posted an excellent blog post today highlighting Windows 7’s Power Management features. These features can help our customers be much more energy efficient. Windows 7 has a strong focus on reducing the overall power consumption which can enable companies to be able to further reduce their operational costs as well as their carbon footprint. I recommend giving the blog post a read to understand how Windows 7 will help people consume less power. Windows 7 is a great example of a product designed to minimize environmental impact.

You can also read this whitepaper (PDF) on Windows 7 Power Management too which is also highly recommended!

UPDATED: Fixed broken whitepaper link.

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  1. Posted on: June 17, 2009 at 1:52AM  

    Under exact similar conditions and after performing various tests (extreme power saving, most peripherals disabled, max performance, continuous video playback, wireless on/off), I've found Windows 7 gives the same battery life on my laptop as Vista, absolutely no difference, XP gives half an hour longer. Also, unfortunately, Windows 7 takes away the convenient 3 plans option that is available in Vista at one click, (Power Saver, Balanced and High Performance) and reduces them to just 2 plans, amongst which Balanced is fixed and cannot be changed. To toggle between Power Saver and High Performance, I constantly have to click More Power options which take me to control panel.

  2. Posted on: June 17, 2009 at 8:14AM  

    What does Microsoft have to say to this comparison->: anandtech.com/.../showdoc.aspx ?

  3. Posted on: August 26, 2009 at 1:52PM  

    ' I've found Windows 7 gives the same battery life on my laptop as Vista, absolutely no difference, XP gives half an hour longer. '

    I think so, too. Namely, it also depends very much on the manufacturer's battery-consumption software.

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