Worldwide complain Windows 7 – user that indicates Windows 7 on battery issues. More specifically, is a warning note that the Dell Inspiron 1501 battery is charged or even lack of power had changed (although this is obviously not the case according to the display). To the complaints, Microsoft has indeed reacted and investigated this issue thoroughly within reason.

But the result of this investigation for the user less likely to facilitate rather than be a slap in the face. Because Microsoft recognizes not mean that it is a bug in the operating system of trade – this concession can not afford to recent reports of success on market share of Windows 7 of course – but insisting instead that it is these warnings rather an internal Feature trade.

This finding was a collaboration with various manufacturers of notebooks previous, which had shown that all of a predefined boundary was not reached, the Windows 7 cause in the episode, to recommend to the user a Dell Vostro 1510 battery replacement.
According to Windows chief Steven Sinofsky had it essentially affected notebooks that are older than 1 1 / 2 years. That this was the case not quite, I unfortunately have to see for yourself, because even shows up on my netbook, which is just one less than six months old, and again under different circumstances, such a warning ..

Although known for a long time that the Dell Latitude E6500 battery of notebooks and netbooks lose gradually through the utilization and memory effects become more and more power, but Windows 7 is really overdoing. Microsoft still stirs from. The limit range of the Dell Studio 1537 battery is possibly also earlier (in the case: under Windows XP) was not reached. However, as with Windows XP, this function was not integrated, this state could eventually not be displayed. It follows that from the perspective of the Redmond software company and not a fault of the new operating system, but rather an intelligent feature. So much for the service availability of Microsoft.

For the future: the warning appears usually have to wait for when the battery is to provide only about 40 percent of its original term capable …