News Item: : Microsoft Bug Drains Duo Core Laptops
(Category: Technology)
Posted by starblzer
Sunday January 29 2006 - 06:17:00

According to Toms Hardware Guide, \\\"Munich (Germany) and Westlake Village (CA) - Connect any USB 2.0 device to your notebook and lose more than one hour of battery time: Tom\\\'s Hardware Guide\\\'s tests of a Windows-based Intel Core Duo mobile processor platform revealed a serious power consumption issue that, according to Intel, is caused by a Microsoft driver bug - a bug that has been known by Microsoft for some time, but kept from the public eye until today.\\\"

It looks like Microsoft has know about the bug since July, 2005.

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