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Re: [News] Battery Drain in Windows Vista

  • Subject: Re: [News] Battery Drain in Windows Vista
  • From: Hadron Quark <qadronhuark@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:41:17 +0100
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  • References: <1885409.pBWLUmMgSy@schestowitz.com> <reply_in_group-0E8437.16453908122006@news.supernews.com> <ofmpts1rhd1v.dlg@funkenbusch.com>
  • Xref: ellandroad.demon.co.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:467064
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 16:45:39 -0800, Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <1885409.pBWLUmMgSy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>  Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. 
>>> `----
>>> 
>>> http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602417&cid
>>> =RSSfeed_IWK_All
>>> 
>>> Embrace and extend. Illegally-obtained and retained monopoly enables that.
>> 
>> Could you explain how implementing a standard is embracing and extending?
>
> I love how linux advocates bitch that Microsoft doesn't follow standards,
> and then moan that they are implementing a standard.

Dont forget that student boy Roy thinks standards are oppressive.

Some scientist he is.

-- 
I cannot see average users bothering with windows machines once they
realise what they can do with a PS3. : Mark Kent, COLA Rottweiler and Optimist.

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