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Re: [News] Battery Drain in Windows Vista

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, NoStop
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 wrote
on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 13:47:11 GMT
<z1eeh.453317$R63.92340@pd7urf1no>:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Microsoft: Vista Wireless Access Could Cause Laptop Battery Drain
>> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Users running Windows Vista on laptops may see batteries draining
>> | faster than they expect, Microsoft said in a warning on a company
>> | blog, because some wireless access points aren't configured to
>> | take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi
>> | power-saving mode.
>> `----
>> 
> WTF has an AP got to do with power saving on a laptop?

Hm.  I was thinking "application program" but you probably meant
"access point".  Oh dear.  Now my brain's going to hurt for the
rest of the morning.

Don't tell the terrorists; they might put up phony Wi-Fi nodes and
drain all of our laptop batteries.

The fiends!

:-)

>
> Cheers.
>
>
>>
> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602417&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All
>> 
>> Embrace and extend. Illegally-obtained and retained monopoly enables that.
>


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