Sinofsky has acquaint an all-encompassing acknowledgment to the affair on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, but I’ll abstract the highlights for you here:

* We accept apparent no reproducible letters of this notification on new accouterments or anew purchased PCs. While we’ve apparent the letters of new PCs accepting this notification, in all cases we accept accustomed that the array was in a base state.

* Our OEM ally accept activated their telemetry (call center, abutment forums, etc.) and accept let us apperceive that they are seeing no action above what they expect. It is account acquainted that PC manufacturers plan through array issues with barter and accept a bright appearance of what is to be accepted both in accepted and with account to specific models, timelines, and batteries.

* In our telemetry from RTM cipher customers, alone a actual baby allotment of users are accepting the “Consider replacing your battery” notification, and as expected, we are seeing systems earlier than ~1.5 years. We’re seeing almost beneath notifications compared to pre-release software as the boilerplate age of the arrangement decreases.

* Microsoft has accustomed 12 chump account incidents in accession to affairs 8 added incidents from assorted forums. To date (for a absolute of 20 incidents), none of these accept apparent annihilation added than base batteries.

My ZDNet aide Mary-Jo Foley has advantage of the affair here.

Over the accomplished few canicule I’ve been accepting acknowledgment from some users assertive that their array took a hit afterwards installing Windows 7. That said, aftereffect questions assume to highlight several agency that ability accord to the problem:

* Old batteries (+2 years old)

* Third affair chargers

At the moment, I feel that the botheration actuality has added to do with humans getting told that there’s an issue. Once humans get a little advice (especially bad news), they activate to captivate over it (whether that be SMART advice apropos to harder drives, CPU or GPU temperatures, or array state), so I’m tempted to say that this is what’s we’re seeing here.