Windows Vista may eat your laptop batteries away

Windows Vista's powerful Aero graphical may lead to greater power consumption in laptop batteries.

Recent reports coming out from various quarters suggest that the new version of Microsoft Windows - Windows Vista, eats away your betteries a bit faster. Experts think this problem happens because of the new features included in Vista such as the Aero interface.

The all new Vista offers many exciting features, but the excitement may not last long when you see your laptop bettery dipping sooner than usual. Unnamed sources quote that when Windows Vista is running in average power mode, the bettery life is noticeably less. 

Microsoft has already come out with the beta versions of the Vista and inital reports suggests that the successor of the XP operating system is pretty advanced. Microsoft has said that the battery life of laptops running of Vista is a bit less than that of XP and it said it hopes to close the gaps in the coming months before its release.

The new Aero interface in Vista offers superior quality graphics when one navigates through the operating system. Vista features translucent windows and animated transitions. It also offers the facility to move between windows and documents by selecting the mini icons .

In the meantime, the notebook manufacturers have made significant improvements in other areas such as disk space and processor performance. But the reports that the new Vista causes a bit of battery problem can worry them. Microsoft has acknoledged that the new advanced graphics may be the cause of the problem. "The Windows Vista Aero theme and components which implement it can use more resources than previous versions of the operating system," says Mike Burk , product manager, Microsoft.

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