Microsoft recently released a new 14-page whitepaper entitled “Windows 7 Power Management” to outline the power management technologies in Windows 7 that reduce power consumption.
Power management is one of the aspects of the Windows client and server operating systems that are evolving from Vista and Windows Server 2008 to Windows 7 and Widows Server 2008 R2. Power management tasks allow the operating system, in conjunction with the hardware available, to strike an equilibrium between performance and the resources consumed. On laptops for example this translates into as much battery life as possible. According to Microsoft, the vision is to have Windows as the most energy-efficient computing platform independent of the hardware configuration or software workloads.
The list of improvements contains the following topics:
- Reduced Power Consumption
- Idle Resource Utilization
- Trigger Start Services
- Enhanced Processor Power Management
- Timer Coalescing
- Device Power Management
- Adaptive Display Brightness
- Low-Power Audio
- Bluetooth Power Improvements
- Networking Power Improvements
- Enhanced User Experiences
- Greater Enterprise Power Management
- Power Efficiency Diagnostics
- Group Policy
- Windows Management Instrumentation
- Power Policy
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