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Microsoft has repeatedly declared that after upgrading Windows 7 companies will save a lot of resources, environmental protection is increasingly becoming the focus of today’s businesses, energy is already have to think about. Recently, embedded software development and consulting firm Mindteck multiple computers were tested on dormant and low usage and high usage of state power consumption of Windows 7 and XP.

From the test results, thanks to its outstanding power management, Windows 7 can save a lot of money for the enterprise. In factory settings, Windows 7 and Windows XP power consumption difference is glaring. In the Pentium 4 machine, if you do not change the factory default settings, then Windows 7, Windows XP power consumption less than 25%. Even if all the drivers updated to the latest version, Windows 7 is still 10% higher than XP to save electricity.
Compared to Pentium 4 machines, the more high-end computer, Windows 7 and XP power consumption gap between the somewhat reduced, but Windows 7 is still an average saving of 3% compared with XP.

According to Microsoft’s latest survey, in the second half of 2009, Windows XP system attacks suffered the most, Vista and Windows 7 is more than twice. Net Applications, market research authority until the end of March the market statistics report, XP is still the largest share of the Windows system (64.46%), Vista, and Windows 7, respectively 16.01% and 10.23%.
Microsoft is investigating the second half of 2009 for the Windows system itself and for third-party software vulnerabilities vulnerability attacks showed, Vista and Windows 7 Most of the attacks on vulnerabilities associated with third-party software, very few because of their vulnerability by hackers But XP is quite different.
XP suffered in the attack, 44.7% is the use of third-party software vulnerabilities, with 55.3% are using Microsoft’s weakness, this proportion is twice as Vista and Windows 7 (24.6%). Although Vista and Windows 7 Most of the attacks are now suffering because the third-party software vulnerabilities, system flaws, but because the attack from the first half (15.5%), nearly 10 percentage points higher.

Left for XP, right for Vista and Windows 7