Windows 8 Team Addresses Battery Life and the New User Interface

As the Windows 8 team continues to address different points of interest on the newest operating system in the Microsoft family, the issue of battery life became their latest challenge. One main concern had to do with the new interface, including the start menu, which uses Metro. This in itself could cause some major power consumption due to the many tiles on the display.

With what could easily become hundreds of easy to access and user tiles it was easy to see how the power drain could become increasingly inefficient as more and more tile functions are used. To help to reduce this issue and maintain a high level of overall system efficiency, the Windows 8 team implemented the push notification platform.

With push, the tile displays become an operation of an off site server instead of the host or user computer system. This takes much of the load off of the user’s system while still giving users the ultimate experience and accessibility to information.

In theory, this will give users the freedom to have as many tiles as he or she wishes. From recent web sites visited or tiles representing a video being watched to other useful tiles that can display recent scores on athletics or the weather in the user’s area. This gives any user the ability to easily personalize their system and account to their preferences while still maintaining a smoothly running computer system.

By running information shown through tiles and designing a notification platform that allows for the Push system to do much of the heavy lifting, the Windows 8 team is striving to build an operating system that will not only be informative and stable for use on several types of system and devices. They are also taking the individual user into consideration.

Battery life for laptops and tablets are always one of the first issues most users have to face when implementing the use of high graphic and high traffic applications. Hopefully with the push system in place battery life will not be affected negatively once a user switches over to Windows 8.


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