Microsoft denied the existence of Windows 7 false positive battery problems
Microsoft said in a statement, denying its latest operating system, Windows 7 in the Laptop battery management there any problems. Prior to Windows 7 was traced to problems with power management, a number of Windows 7 users battery life under normal conditions, but problems with the system before the battery warning. Since then, Microsoft began to investigate the matter and conducted a series of tests.
Initially, Microsoft Windows7 cells that may be due to some computer false positive problems caused by the firmware. Still, Microsoft’s own operating system has always been convinced that operating normally.
Microsoft, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president (Steven Sinofsky) said that according to experimental results show that Microsoft, Windows 7 to determine the accuracy of battery consumption, in any case had almost no false positives . Microsoft has received and all the false failures were identified in the battery, the result is that laptop battery is already close to their useful life.
In addition, he also mentioned this problem only recently emerged, and users upgrade to the latest version of Windows 7 may also lead to the problem, saying, “appears to be a Windows 7 ’cause’ of the decline in battery life, but the actual situation is all about Windows7 previous relevant reports are all the new operating system’s performance affirmed. ”
Microsoft and other computer makers has so far received 20 complaints related to failure, survey shows effect of these problems has been aging laptop batteries, battery endurance decline is a normal phenomenon. Although some users of Microsoft’s TechNet and other forums are still rankled, but shorter lead time for notebook use is indeed the reason is due to the aging of the battery itself, rather than other factors.
Sinofsky said that in the Windows7 test period compared to the current issue of the proportion of false positives occur Windows7 has dropped a lot. Although problems remain, but some may be due to an increasing number of new software (as well as new batteries) and compatibility issues Windows7. At present only a small part of the user receives a “proposal to replace the battery” prompt, Microsoft Windows has been going on for more than 18 months of testing.