Microsoft Says Windows 7 Battery Issues Are Batteries’ Fault

Microsoft claims its engineers have been exploring complaints of poor battery life for some laptops running Windows 7, and that in every case the operating system is not at fault. Instead, Windows 7 had correctly evaluated via a new feature that those users batteries were failing, Microsoft said in a Feb. 8 blog posting. However, posts on Microsoft Watch, TechNet and other discussion forums seem to suggest that at least a percentage of users experiencing these issues also had batteries that were either new or nearly-new, which in turn is raising further questions.
– Microsoft’s engineers have been exploring the alleged battery-life issues
associated with Windows 7 running on laptops, and report that the operating
system is not causing those batteries to prematurely fail. In every case, claimed an official Microsoft blog posting on Feb. 8, Windows 7 correctly …

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