Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista

[- Bobb -]

This is the best Microsoft marketing can do ?
I got this email:
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TechNet Flash: Special Edition: Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista?

Welcome to the special bonus edition of TechNet Flash featuring content
specifically selected to inform and ease your Windows Vista deployment.
.....

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an
automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/powermgmt/VistaEnergyConserv.mspxOH, in that case let me toss my current OS .

 

[Ghostrider]

This is the best Microsoft marketing can do ?
I got this email:
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TechNet Flash: Special Edition: Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista?

Welcome to the special bonus edition of TechNet Flash featuring content
specifically selected to inform and ease your Windows Vista deployment.
....

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an
automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/powermgmt/VistaEnergyConserv.mspxOH,
in that case let me toss my current OS .

Does this mean that Vista is to bloated, clunky and inefficient that
every 10 PC's running it will deprive an automobile of a tank of gas?

 

[Not Me]

Does this mean that Vista is to bloated, clunky and inefficient that
every 10 PC's running it will deprive an automobile of a tank of gas?

THEY HAVE IMPROVED IT THAT MUCH WITH SP1? LOL

 

[- Bobb -]

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Either the URL is wrong or the page has been deleted.

You're right - it changed:
I reclicked my links and they have forwarded URL's - try these:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9033354

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...4bae-9fde-d599bac8184a/VistaEnergyConserv.doc

 

[- Bobb -]

This is the best Microsoft marketing can do ?
I got this email:
==================

TechNet Flash: Special Edition: Why should you upgrade to Windows Vista?

Welcome to the special bonus edition of TechNet Flash featuring content
specifically selected to inform and ease your Windows Vista deployment.
....

Every 10 PCs that switch to Windows Vista is the equivalent of taking an
automobile off the road, in terms of greenhouse gases.

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/powermgmt/VistaEnergyConserv.mspxOH,
in that case let me toss my current OS .

typo:
s/b
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/powermgmt/VistaEnergyConserv.mspx

 

[David Walker]

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v.mspx

All of my XP systems are set to turn off the monitors and disks when
they are idle. (I think monitors default to power off even in XP.)

95% of the article compares how much energy is saved with a monitor
powered off versus not powered off. That doesn't only happen in Vista!
I configured my Windows 95 computers to do the same thing, 14 years ago.

The rest of the info in that article is what I would call "fluff". The
group policy and corporate settings have to be set by someone.


David Walker

 

[+Bob+]

95% of the article compares how much energy is saved with a monitor
powered off versus not powered off. That doesn't only happen in Vista!
I configured my Windows 95 computers to do the same thing, 14 years ago.

I noticed the same thing. Ther comparison of Vista savings is to a
system left full time with no power saving features at all. Very
realistic.