Submission + - Is Windows an Energy Hog? (computerworld.com)
Ken Gagne writes: "Previous studies have shown that server power consumption has doubled over the past five years, and that home PC energy consumption has also skyrocketed. Robert Mitchell proposes that the fault may not be with just the hardware, but also what software it's running:
One industry expert says that "On the whole, Windows platforms are less efficient" than applications running on Unix. Could an entire operating system such as Windows and the applications running on top of it be energy hogs?"As the performance of hardware continues to go up and prices continue to drop, there's been little pressure on software vendors to write efficient code... If anything, that code has been getting bigger and more bloated over time. Now that spiking power requirements and heat density issues have IT's attention... it's time to revisit the issue of software efficiency.
