Microsoft Boasts of Tiny Energy Saving With IE

judgecorp writes "Microsoft has sponsored research that indicates that its Internet Explorer browser uses less power than the competition, Firefox and Google (there's no explanation of what causes the difference). However, the difference in power use is not really significant — it's about one Watt when browsing. Browsing for 20 hours at this rate, the IE user would save enough power to make a cup of tea, compared with Firefox and Chrome users. That Microsoft commissioned and published the report seems to indicate a certain desperation to Microsoft's IE marketing efforts."

Re:It adds up

[crutchy]

What company is stupid enough to pay for 10,000 Windows licences?

Browser energy?

[aglider]

I'd like to know how can they tell whether the energy has been ate by the browser, the scheduler, the idle process or whatever else is in a Windows OS!!!
And I bet that IE v1 (not v10) would eat much less power as it supports a tiny slice of HTML and other web related technologies.

Re:It adds up

[Joce640k]

Well..certainly not one that would allow their employees to have two extra cups of tea per week.

On the other hand...

[gishzida]

Microsoft failed to mention the amount of power wasted cleaning up malware infections brought about because IE is not able to block malware 'mouse over' attacks. "Ad Block Plus" and "No Script" kill crapware attacks before they happen... unfortunately IE is part of the problem rather than the solution.

Re:It adds up

[Anonymous Coward]

Or an executive a £250,000 bonus for saving power!