Microsoft's Sleep Proxy Lowers PC Energy Use

alphadogg writes "Microsoft researchers have slashed desktop energy use with a sleep proxy system that maintains a PC's network presence even when it is turned off or put into standby mode. Microsoft has deployed the sleep proxy system to more than 50 active users in the Building 99 research facility in Redmond, Wash., according to the Microsoft Research Web site and a paper that will be presented at the Usenix technical conference in Boston later this month. ... Sleep proxies allow machines to be turned off while keeping them connected to the network, waking the machines when a user or IT administrator attempts to access them remotely."

Comments

Re:Give them a break

[morgan_greywolf]

Ever heard of Windows Update? You are the on who doesn't seem to get it.

Re:Linux or *BSD

[Bigjeff5]

Know how patents work?

See, you get this novel thing called a license from the patent owner and you get to use the patent under the terms of that license. Hey look! Apple gave an open source distribution license for it! It's even designed specifically so you can sell it if you want. They even give you source code for it, ooooh, nifty.

Oh. My. God. What, a concept.

Now STFU.

Re:Give them a break

[Bigjeff5]

Reinventing something that's been available for years is not 'coming up with good technologies'.

You'd have a point if Microsoft claimed to have invented anything new here.

Since they didn't, you're just a dumbass.

They've done some research into implementing sleep proxy in a Windows network environment, and wrote a paper on their findings. How the fuck is that claiming to have invented anything?