[dba-Tech] FYI: Microsoft: Internet Explorer 10 Is The Most Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And Firefox

 Hi Jim --

Not sure about MS planning to run their browser on all major platforms...

AFAIU their "energy saving" improvements figures were calculated based on current park of computers running MS Windows 8.

-- Shamil

Wednesday, June  5, 2013 1:57 PM -07:00 from "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca>:
>Hi Shamil:
>
>Thanks for posting the link. Interesting.
>
>I would guess the next step for Microsoft would be to get their browser to
>be able to run on all major platforms? 
>
>Are improvements pointless, if the new browser can only run on a single
>niche market OS, with proprietary hardware and software?
>
>Jim
>
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>Energy-Efficient Browser, Uses Up To 18% Less Power Than Chrome And Firefox
>
> " If everybody switched from Chrome and Firefox to Internet Explorer 10 on
>Windows 8, we could save enough energy  to power 10,000 U.S. households , a
>new study ( PDF ) commissioned by Microsoft says..."
>
>http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/05/microsoft-internet-explorer-10-is-the-most-
>energy-efficient-browser-uses-up-to-18-less-power-than-chrome-and-firefox/
>
>:)
>
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