Do you have to pay off the power of Vista by 5 billion every year?

Microsoft has been boasting about the new power-saving feature of Vista, which means that upgrading to Vista can save consumers and enterprises 50% to 75% of their electricity bills each year. The question is what is great? Program Can this miracle happen? The answer is a bit unpleasant. Microsoft only fixed three low-level errors in XP, which have wasted $25 billion in the world over the past five years, it also produced millions of tons of carbon dioxide.

First, Microsoft has never placed energy-saving options on the default specification list. to make XP run more smoothly, the desktop must run in "high-performance" mode. therefore, many default options are set to "high performance. even if this is not the case, users will manually set this mode, and they do not know what impact this will have on energy consumption.

The second error occurs in the "Sleep" model that is very popular. sleep can save a lot of energy, which is especially important for mobile devices. studies on Windows 95 and Windows 98 show that users do not want to shut down the computer because the system startup time is too long. the sleep mode is a good solution to this problem. however, the problem occurs again. Windows XP allows any program to overload the sleep function. therefore, if a user runs anti-virus software in the background, the computer is not allowed to go to sleep. this vulnerability is the culprit in laptop battery endurance, and users will turn off the sleep function relentlessly.

The third problem occurs in management. all system administrators are confused or difficult to control the energy saving of all computers on the network. therefore, they leave their options to users. result: millions of computers and monitors are running 24 hours a day or even a week without activating the energy saving function.

Vista proposed to correct these three problems, thus saving the Earth a lot of money and energy. however, what Microsoft claims to save us money and energy is exactly what Windows has wasted over the past five years.

Recently posted on the foreign policy blogArticleAfter a rough calculation, the article said that Vista's energy-saving function can easily save the Earth $5 billion in overhead every year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 45 million. if the situation is the same, Microsoft's low-level mistakes have wasted $25 billion million for all humans over the past five years, resulting in 22.5 million carbon dioxide emissions to nature.

Of course, we are glad that Microsoft has realized this problem and made some modifications. But if Microsoft discovered the problem five years ago, how nice it would be.

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