Gizmodo has an interesting article on Vista’s Aero and how it absolutely crushes notebook batteries.
It seems that reports have been surfacing from ZDNet and other publications that Aero is a little intense on its power consumption.  It seems the new 3D graphics engine is needs a jolt just to run properly.
In my own experience, this [...]

This is a little hard for me to believe, being that pretty much everyone I know is pushing back against Vista, but InformationWeek has an article which states Microsoft had record third quarter profits, on the back of Vista.
It would be interesting to know how many units were sold in China though, being that street [...]