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Windows 7, a better power saver?

Summary: At Microsoft's Silicon Valley Campus, ZDNet's Sumi Das talks to Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, about power-saving features in the new Windows 7 operating system. Bernard says Microsoft made energy efficiency a core design element, with better battery optimization, and Bluetooth and DVD features that won't be activated until necessary.

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  • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        One of the most frequent questions I get these days comes from people who?ve been running the Windows 7 beta and RC and are planning to upgrade to the final version when it?s available on October 22. ?Which edition of Windows 7 do I need??
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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        Interestingly, this question also comes up in other contexts as well. When Apple defenders appear in the TalkBack section here, they regularly insist that the Home Premium edition is ?crippled? and ?stripped-down.?
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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        Sooner or later, they insist, any self-respecting Windows user will have to upgrade.
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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        Based on that argument, they say that you must use the more expensive Ultimate edition to
        Linux Love
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        compare the costs of a Windows PC to those of a Mac, which comes in only a single edition. As you?ll
        Linux Love
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        On the Windows side, many users just automatically assume that more is better. By that logic,
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        Ultimate is obviously the best and lesser versions are inferior. Because they?re power users, they
        Linux Love
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        assume that Home Premium?s missing features mean they?re going to be lacking a feature they
        Linux Love
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        really need.
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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        But is that true? If you?re buying Windows Home Premium, what features are you missing, exactly?
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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        What would you get if you paid extra for Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate? And is it fair to
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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

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      • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

        A few weeks ago, I did an exhaustive comparison of the differences between Windows 7 editions. For the comparison here, I decided to strip the list down to a single, simple table, which represents the entire list of features that are in Professional or Ultimate editions that are not in Home Premium edition (with one esoteric exception, which I documetned at the end of the notes page). For comparisons sake, I included OS X in the table as well. As you can see, OS X has much more in common with Windows 7 Home Premium than it does with the features in Professional and Ultimate editions. That shouldnt be a surprise, because those two upgraded Windows editions are specifically aimed at customers running on Windows-based<a href="http://ipadbagblog.com/"><font color="light&height"> ipad bag blog</font></a> of best <a href="http://www.sutudeg.org/"><font color="light&height">sutudeg community</font></a> the modern <a href="http://wposfv.com/"><font color="light&amp;height">education news</font></a> and country networks.
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    • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

      @edward polling I'm afraid that even had Windows Mobile gone open source, there probably wouldn't have been that many OSS developers that would have jumped on board. And I believe that the state of MS's coding might simply have embarrassed it rather than helping.
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  • RE: Windows 7, a better power saver?

    see from the table below, this isn?t accurate.
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