Microsoft and its Pc maker partners are continuing to search into battery challenges which some Windows seven people have stated they;ve been going through. Up to now, there;s absolutely nothing new to report, Microsoft officials mentioned on Friday, February 5, but their investigation is continuing.Update: On February 8,
Office 2007 Enterprise Key, Microsoft issued a new statement, by way of the WIndows Engineering seven weblog. Bottom line: Microsoft says it;s the batteries, not Win7, at fault for your growing quantity of alleged battery-related Windows seven challenges.It;s nevertheless unclear specifically what's occurring — whether there;s a problem with the Pc batteries themselves or there is something that could be fixed via a software update/patch. Reports about what;s happening are all over the map: Some are claiming they are getting less battery life with Windows 7 than Vista or XP. Others are saying they are getting false reports that their batteries are faulty. There are a variety of battery-related complaints,
Office Pro Plus 2007, some dating back to before the final release of Windows 7, in the Microsoft TechNet forums.Given the relatively small amount of reports of complications (seeing that Microsoft has sold 60 million copies of Windows seven to date), is this just a case of normal hardware failure? From the TechNet forums, difficulties seem to be occurring across a variety of vendors; systems, and aren;t just isolated to a single type of Pc.One source I spoke with this week, who asked not to be identified, threw cold water on the idea that Windows 7 itself could be destroying Pc batteries.”There;s no way a Windows seven interaction with the BIOS would cause any temporary or permanent battery damage,” the source said.One of Microsoft;s Gold reseller partners told me he received a puzzling response when he contacted HP about 30 HP NC6400 laptops, purchased two years ago, which are encountering battery-related concerns.“I escalated this with HP this past week and they were ignorant of the issue (nonetheless waiting for resolution and callbacks),” mentioned Scott Hill, CIO of RightSize IT. “One recommendation was to roll back to Vista (never again), another was to roll back a laptop to XP to verify if the battery was good (loss of productivity), and the final one was to replace all my laptops with a Win 7 compatible laptop (over a $60,
Windows 7 32bit,000 investment).There;s no one “throat to choke,” Hill stated. If this is a driver problem, is it a Microsoft issue or an HP one?“HP states that the drivers (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface,
Office 2007 Download, or ACPI) are Microsoft supplied so they are pointing to them, ” Hill mentioned. “Further, I noticed in the Device Manager that I have one Unknown Driver – “ACPI\HPQ0004”. What drives me nuts is that this has occurred across all platforms at the same time – what is the possibility that 30 LION batteries in 30 laptops having the same condition? The only consistent variable is the ACPI drivers from Microsoft.”Hill continued: “We show 100% charge using the ‘Balanced Power Plan; and after about 10 minutes it reaches 92% then falls to 7% in less than a minute and shuts down the laptops – when previously with XP we were getting three to four hours per charge. What’s worse, is that we lost the utilities we used to have to calibrate and discharge the batteries to avoid battery memory issues. I think there is a bug in the ACPI in cycling the batteries by using the charging, etc.”If others have reported difficulties to Microsoft or their Pc providers and have open helpdesk tickets,
Office 2010 Professional, I;d be interested to hear what you;re hearing back….