Read original post by Sharif Farag and Ben Srour at Building Windows 8 Blog
We’ve featured several posts about how we’re working to improve battery life for Windows 8 PCs. In Pat Stemen’s Building a power-smart general-purpose Windows post, we discussed some of the investments that we are making in Windows 8 to enable a new smartphone-like power mode on system-on-a-chip (SOC) hardware, a mode we call Connected Standby. In Updating live tiles without draining your battery, we talked about how we’re enabling live tiles to give you fresh and current information without creating a lot of underlying activity that erodes battery life. In this post, we’ll expand on a few additional innovations that we didn’t cover previously, about how we‘ve minimized the power usage of running apps on Windows 8 PCs while still getting the most out of them.