Windows Vista Power Management
The hardware that makes up todays laptops has gotten quite efficient and we have worked hard to improve Windows' ability to manage that hardware. One of the biggest improvements in the mobile PC experience for Windows since the early 1990 is longer battery life.
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11.12.2006 Microsoft Enhances Power Management in Windows 7
Microsoft engineers are putting a number of new power management features into Windows 7 that are designed to help IT administrators reduce power consumption and cost while improving the user experience.
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14.6.2009 The Power in Power Users
Placing Windows user accounts in the Power Users security group is a common approach IT organizations take to get users into a least-privilege environment while avoiding the many pains of truly running as a limited user. The Power Users group is able to install software, manage power and time-zone settings, and install ActiveX controls, actions that limited Users are denied.
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2.5.2006 Microsoft Management Console 3.0 Download
Microsoft Management Console 3.0 (MMC 3.0) is a framework that unifies and simplifies day-to-day system management tasks on Windows by providing common navigation, menus, toolbars, and workflow across diverse tools.
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14.3.2006 Mythbusting Windows Vista - Memory Management
Windows Vista is well on it's way and everyday more and more information is released. A lot of this information is misunderstood, regurgitated and out of the ashes many a myth has risen on Vista. I'd like to welcome a special guest author, Ned Gnitchel, who will be presenting a number of articles over the next little while debunking some of these myths. Ned works for a large software company and is a specialist in OS Internals, Directory Services and Collaboration.
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13.3.2006 LockCrypt 1.50 - Secure Password Management
LockCrypt is a free account management program which uses high strength AES encryption to encrypt your data, so only you can access it.
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12.5.2008 Account Management Update for Zune.net Tomorrow
Cesar lets us know that tomorrow at 10am PDT the Zune Team will be going live with a Account Management Update for Zune.net.
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6.2.2007 Advanced Disks and Drives Management in Windows Vista
Disks, partitions, drivers, FAT, NTFS, volumes... the fact of the matter is that it all comes down to storage. So, essentially, managing disks and drives via Windows Vista will allow users to control the storage space available on the local hard drive or even drives if that should be the case.
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5.8.2007 New Window Management System for Windows 7 Pre-Beta
The window management system is one piece of the Windows 7 graphical user interface which will evolve starting with the pre-Beta version of the operating system.
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3.10.2008 Steve Ballmer talks about Microsoft Views on New Management and Security Solutions in The Netherlands
Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands, April 23, 2007 - Today, during a visit to the Netherlands, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corp., talked about Microsoft views on new, integrated management and security products for business users.
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23.4.2007 Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007
The Windows Vista Client Monitoring Management Pack is built on the Windows Diagnostics Infrastructure in Windows Vista that detects, diagnoses and tries to resolve hardware and software problems.
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12.5.2007 Vista flexes its power
Companies have long known the benefits of making sure their workers get a good night's sleep--and they would be wise to let their PCs do the same, Microsoft says.
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17.10.2006 What would you like to see in Vista Power Toys?
Microsoft has a long tradition of releasing power toys for Windows. These are invariably unsupported (although the batch written for Windows XP were pretty polished) and generally pretty darn useful.
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19.3.2007 What would you like to see in Vista Power Toys?
Microsoft has a long tradition of releasing power toys for Windows. These are invariably unsupported (although the batch written for Windows XP were pretty polished) and generally pretty darn useful.
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21.3.2007 Microsoft: Code to the Power of Windows 7
Via the Code7 Contest Microsoft is inviting software developers to build an application tailored to Windows 7.
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15.7.2009 Power efficiency enhancements in Vista SP1
Most if not all the attention surrounding Windows Vista Service Pack 1 has been around performance, reliability and compatibility, but you probably didnt know SP1 also makes short strides in terms of Vistas power efficiency.
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23.2.2008 Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
Microsoft has just released Power Pack 1 for their Windows Home Server software. Similar to a service pack for other versions of Windows, the Power Pack includes a number of bug fixes and improvements designed to enhance the overall experience the consumer has with the software.
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21.7.2008 An update regarding Windows Home Server Power Pack 1
Thanks for all of the thoughtful feedback, passion and insights in this post on the Windows Home Server Community Forums about shipping Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 concurrently, versus prior to the data corruption fix.
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3.4.2008 Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Updates
Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 was released to manufacturing on July 21, 2008, and the gold bits are heading straight for the end users' machines.
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13.8.2008 Windows Home Server - Announcing Power Pack 2
We are pleased to announce Windows Home Server Power Pack 2. Power Pack 2 fixes known issues and adds new features to improve the Windows Home Server experience.
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25.3.2009 Windows Home Server Power Pack 3 update
Weve talked extensively about the improvements that Power Pack 3 for Windows Home Server will deliver for users.
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29.9.2009 Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager 2005
The Microsoft SQL Server Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 in an enterprise environment. Availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds are built for enterprise-level monitoring. Both local and remote connectivity checks help ensure database availability.
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5.6.2006 Building Windows Vista: A Podcast Interview with Microsoft's Sven Hallauer, Director of Windows Release Management
We were recently able to catch up with Sven Hallauer, Director of Release Management for Windows Vista, to ask him a few questions regarding the build process of Windows Vista. Sven is the master of all Windows builds.
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2.9.2006 Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta
Microsoft has detailed its plans to release a public beta of its Windows Home Server Power Pack.
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22.5.2008 Linux beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures
Ensuring your servers stamp as small a carbon footprint as possible on the earth and in your datacenter can encompass everything from making sure they are shipped in recyclable packaging to hiring an analyst who can predict the total lifecycle environmental impact.
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10.6.2008 Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is Codenamed "Snoqualmie"
Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 is Codenamed "Snoqualmie". I havent been able to tell you this to date, due to my MVP non-disclosure agreement..
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20.1.2009 Power Pack 3 for Home Server announced, inc Win 7 support
Microsoft has announced Power Pack 3 (beta) for Windows Home Server today which adds important Windows 7 support to the list of features.
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17.7.2009 Microsoft Print Management Step-by-Step Guide
Print Management provides up-to-the-minute details about the status of printers and print servers on the network. You can use Print Management to install printer connections to a group of client computers simultaneously.
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29.4.2006 Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Public Beta Released
The Windows Home Server team has announced the availability of a Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 Release Candidate for public beta testing.
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10.6.2008 Microsoft Pushes Back Windows Home Server Power Pack 3
The third Power Pack for Windows Home Server won't come around the same time Windows 7 will, a recent post on the Windows Home Server Blog announced recently.
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30.9.2009Power Management in Windows 7 Overview
Windows 7 power-management technologies provide platform and processor efficiencies that reduce power consumption, helping lower energy costs. Windows
7 also provides diagnostic tools that enable IT pros to better manage and troubleshoot power management on client computers and to extend the time
that users can work on their computers. This white paper describes power-management improvements in Windows 7, including power conservation, longer
battery life, and enhanced enterprise power manageability.
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30.04.2009Microsoft Enhances Power Management in Windows 7
Microsoft engineers are putting a number of new power management features into Windows 7 that are designed to help IT administrators reduce power
consumption and cost while improving the user experience. Some of the new features also are aimed at giving IT professionals more control and
flexibility over the managing of the energy-efficiency capabilities of the Windows 7 OS and the systems. The new features build off of the more than
30 power management enhancements in Microsoft made in Windows Vista, according to officials.
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12.06.2009Unleashing Power Management Features in Windows Vista
Last week, Microsoft made two major announcements with respect to PC power management:
endorsing a free power management application for consumers and
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unching a free ENERGY STAR solution for licensed System Center Configuration Manager 2007 users.
These announcements
generated a lot of interest in PC power management and led some of our blog readers to ask: "These new tools are great, but what power management
features does Windows Vista offer out-of-the-box?"
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11.08.2008Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool Feb. 2008 CTP
The Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool is a productivity tool that helps architects and system designers to generate models of an
application that contribute to minimized TCO. These models include configuration, instrumentation, health, and performance information. The Team
System Management Model Designer Power Tool also assists developers to implement the required instrumentation, and create management packs for
monitoring systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.
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22.02.2008Windows 7 and Power Management
Francois Ajenstat: With the upcoming release of Windows 7 we wanted to provide you with more information on the new power management features in the
product and ways that were driving energy efficiency across the PC ecosystem.
Microsoft recognizes that software can play a
critical role in helping companies reduce operational costs and their carbon footprint. We also understand the importance of energy efficiency for our
customers and for the broader environment, and we are designing our products to minimize environmental impacts. We designed our latest operating
system, Windows 7, with a strong focus on reducing the overall power consumption by investing in key areas of the platform including performance
optimizations, idle resource utilization, device power management, and key end-user scenarios.
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16.06.2009Intel Settles Transmeta Dispute, Granted License for Power Management
The company that years ago set out to become a legitimate alternative to Intel, and blazed the trail that AMD eventually followed, today announced it
is setting aside its patent infringement claim against Intel. The companies have reached an out-of-court settlement granting Intel perpetual license
to Transmeta's CPU power management technology, in exchange for $150 million in cash up front and $100 million more over the next five years...
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24.10.2007Windows Vista Power Management Guide for Notebooks
Since the introduction of the Windows Vista operating system, there have been many rumours and complaints made about the way that the operating
system manages power settings and how this can impact the battery life and usage on notebook computers. Generally, Windows Vista manages power as well
as its predecessor, Windows XP, although in some configurations it can be a little more demanding on your battery.
This guide
will help you get the most out of your notebook battery when running Windows Vista.
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01.01.2008IE Mobile 6 to be available on new WM 6.1 smartphones
Microsoft will be rolling out Windows Mobile 6.1 AKU 1.4 bundled with IE Mobile 6 for all the new Windows Phones until Windows Mobile 6.5 is released.
Glad that Microsoft is upgrading their mobile browser and not delaying it further. Microsoft had decided earlier that IE Mobile 6 will not be made
available as an upgrade or download for existing Windows Phones saying that the current hardware cannot support IE 6. "Regarding making IE Mobile
available as a separate download or update, the rich media experiences that IE Mobile 6 enables require more powerful, advanced devices.
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06.03.2009Disk power-management is on Microsofts green agenda
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft has been turning up the volume on its green initiatives across the company, as of late. I recently stumbled onto yet another
one: DiskEnergy.
DiskEnergy is a Microsoft
Research project headquartered at the companys Cambridge, U.K. research facility. So far, theres very little public information about it. But
heres a description of whats in the works, courtesy of the Microsoft Research site:
Power consumption is a major problem for data
centers of all sizes which impacts the density of servers and the total cost of ownership. This is causing changes in data center configuration and
management. Some components already support some power management features, for example server CPUs support dynamic clock and voltage scaling that
enables power requirements to be reduced significantly during idle periods. Storage subsystems do not have power management and are consume a
significant amount of power in the data center. Modern enterprise grade disks require approximately 10W when idle. As storage requirements generally
increase in data centers, the number of disks in data centers is increasing proportionally.
The DiskEnergy researchers just published a
white paper, entitled
Write Off-Loading: Practical Power
Management for Enterprise Storage. The team is planning to present its paper at the Usenix FAST conference in February 2008.
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18.01.2008Microsoft details Windows Server 2008 power management features
Microsoft is building new processor power management features into Windows Server 2008, which are due out at the end of February. Stephen Berard,
program manager of the Windows Platform Architecture team, discusses how these new features will reduce server energy consumption in the data center
and how these features will be more widely adopted than they were in Windows Server 2003.
Is CPU throttling the most important
piece of server power management?
Stephen Berard: With in-state servers, the vast amount of power goes to the CPU. With today's hardware
and infrastructure, the CPUs are the biggest and best control we have. Also, we're putting more CPUs into a single box with multiple cores. Today, I
think that's the biggest bang for the buck.
Will servers take a performance hit?
Berard: That's largely a perception.
We do this so many times a second on a laptop; it's a mature technology. The transmission latencies are so small, and Intel and AMD have done
tremendous work to make sure the parts of the chips can be powered down seamlessly.
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23.08.2007Reminder: Catch Microsoft at CES 2009 Live!
For those of you sitting at your computers right now, just so happen to be reading this article and are interested in watching Microsoft's Keynote at
the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, do we have some news for you!
You can catch Ballmer and his crazy antics as he gives us Microsoft's
keynote Live over the intertubes!
The stream is available in the usual three flavors...
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08.01.2009Windows 7 Energy Efficiency
Steven Sinofsky: The following post continues our discussion of fundamentals with a focus on power management. Power Management (or energy
efficiency) is something that every contributor to the PC Ecosystem must always addressthe energy efficiency of a running PC is limited by the weakest
component. In engineering Windows 7 we had an explicit focus on the energy usage patterns of the running system and will continue to work with
hardware and software makers to realize the collective benefit of all of this work. While we talk about the balancing of needs in every area, energy
consumption is probably the most easily visualizedwhen we test running systems we connect them to power meters and watch a very clear number change as
we run tests.
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06.01.2009Want free games for Windows Mobile?
Are you one of those who owns a Windows Mobile device and also uses Twitter? Then you might be in to grab some free games daily! Windows Mobile
Developer Team is giving away free games over at their Twitter account. You can follow the Windows Mobile Developer Team here. The idea is that,
the WM Developer Team will be tweeting the codes as well as instructions to get those free games daily. And be quick to redeem the codes, as it seems
that the codes are one use only and first come first served! If you don't have a twitter account yet, you can sign up here and then follow WM
Developer Team here to get regular updates
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07.02.2009MIX08 Kicks In!
It's that time again! Another conference is coming, and several keynotes by Microsoft too. After a disappointing CES, Microsoft is expected to strike
hard at MIX08, especially with the conference by Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager for the Internet Explorer team, where he is expected to give us an
in-depth look at the next version of Microsoft's web browser, which is due into beta very soon.
The keynote begins at 9:30AM
PST, and as usual, live streams are available for everyone to follow.
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05.03.2008Join us for PDC 2008 Keynote #2!
In my eyes, the first keynote was a great success, talking about Microsoft expanding "into the cloud". With the second keynote, we'll be landing
back on solid ground again, and talking about some more locally-based things, most notably Windows 7.
Tune in to one of the following
feeds at 8:30am Pacific to catch the event live as it unfolds:
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28.10.2008MIX09 Day 2: Watch it Live
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OCZ Acquires PC Power & Cooling
OCZ has announced it has
acquired American supplier of
power supply units PC Power &
Cooling. Originally founded in
1985, PC Power & Cooling has
been a frontrunner in ultra
high-performance power
supplies and cooling solutions
for the enthusiast. OCZ aims
to expand its product line
through the acquisition,
increase its R&D resources,
and establish the organization
as the leading provider of
power-supply solutions. OCZ
plans to combine the current
product lines of both
companies immediately after
the acquisition is complete
and make PC Power & Cooling's
products available worldwide
through its distribution
channels. PCP&C's current
line of power supply units
will become the new line of
high-end OCZ power supplies.
Despite the acquisition, the
power supplies will still
maintain their PCP&C
branding.
The
acquisition will also result
in a change in management for
OCZ. The founder of PCP&C,
Doug Dodson will move into the
position of Chief Technology
Officer at OCZ which was
previously jointly filled by
OCZ CEO Ryan Peterson and OCZ
vice president of technology
development Michael Schuette.
Regarding his new position,
Doug Dodson said " In my
new role as Chief Technology
Officer, I will focus on
maintaining PC Power's lead
in proven ultra
high-performance with the
Turbo-Cool line, and in value
and quiet computing with the
Silencer line, as well as
provide guidance for the
continuing improvement of
OCZ's power management
solutions ."
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Windows Vista is protecting the environment
Roger Halbheer, Chief Security Advisor of Microsoft EMEA: When we launched Windows Vista, one of the features which was pointed out to me was power
management and how it will lower the costs in the enterprise environment. Well, I put my focus on the security technologies (obviously) and ignored
the power management part - and I seem to be wrong. Read the following blog post and see that you should definitely look into this: How green is your PC?
winbeta.org - 01.12.2007
New ultra-portable notebook
tops 6 hours of battery life,
Sharp claims
Huntington Beach (CA)
- Sharp today announced the
M4000 Widenote notebook that
combines a 13.3-inch screen
and a Pentium M processor in
an ultra-portable package that
can deliver more than 6 hours
of operating time on one
battery charge, according to
the
manufacturer.
Inching closer to the
industry's goal of 8 hours of
battery time in notebooks,
Sharp today announced a new
model that adds itself to a
growing of mobile computers
that are capable of delivering
twice the battery time of
common thin and light
notebooks. With a promised six
hours, the M4000 Widenote
could be among the currently
most power efficient notebooks
on the market.
The
M4000 is based on an Intel
Centrino package with a
Pentium M 740 (1.73 GHz)
processor at its heart.
According to Sharp, the
additional battery time is not
achieved through adding more
battery capacity, but adding
more flexibility to power
management. The "Advanced
Power Management" feature
allows the user to extend
control over power draining
subsystems of a notebook:
Instead of managing just four
devices, as provided by
Windows' default, Sharp's
system controls up to 11
subsystems: LCD display
(brightness, backlight and
refresh rate), harddrive,
optical disk drive, wireless
LAN, system standby, suspend
to disk, system wallpaper,
audio and CPU performance.
According to Sharp, users are
given three profiles of power
management, each offering the
ability to configure eleven
different
settings.
Standard
features of the 3.7-pound
M4000 include a 13.3-inch
screen, an 80 GByte harddrive,
and a DVD burner. The notebook
will ship later this month
with pricing set at $1800...
winbeta.org - 06.09.2005
Microsoft, VMware Talk Up Lower Power Bills
Virtualization's long been touted as a major way for enterprises to cut management, hardware and power costs while improving utilization. But it's
on this last point -- the energy-savings angle -- where enterprise giants like VMware and Microsoft are focusing much of their energy of late.
But while they're both pushing virtualization as a key way to reduce datacenter power expenses, they're -- surprise, surprise --
also not above taking shots at each other over which actually cuts more costs...
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