Acording to a new Microsoft-sponsored study by the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Internet Explorer consumes less wattage than Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. The study discovered some pretty miniscule changes between each browser when it came to situations like “Average, Top 10 Websites” and “Fishbowl Benchmarks.” However, the introduction of Flash into the test showed a fairly substantial change between browser power consumption, with Internet Explorer consuming approximately 18.6 percent less wattage than Google Chrome.

These aren’t massive differences, but Microsoft is making a point of just how much of a difference a small percentage can make by releasing statements regarding the findings. According to the company, the energy saved by using Internet Explorer is enough to power 10,000 traditional homes in the United States for approximately one year. Microsoft also stated that the reduction in carbon is comparable to growing 2.2 million trees for 10 years. It isn’t clear exactly why browsers consume different energy amounts, but PCWorld explains that it may be due to the “number of CPU cycles consumed over time.”

Another interesting finding in the study concerns HTML5-based websites. According to the numbers posted across all three browsers, HTML5 websites caused the browsers to consume considerably more power than the basic, top ten websites that were tested. We weren’t given a list of what Fraunhofer says are the Web’s top ten websites, or how it decided upon what websites should be placed there.

“Testing of two HTML5 websites (one benchmark, one video) and one Flash video found that both appear to increase power draw significantly more than the top ten websites tested,” the study said. “Most notably, the HTML5 benchmark test condition more than doubled the notebook power draw for all computers and browsers tested, while desktop power draw increased by approximately 50 percent.”

The company isn’t prepared to point fingers at HTML5 as a potential power consumer and it doesn’t yet have enough solid evidence to suggest that it is drawing more power all on its own. It has, however, sparked interest from Fraunhofer as a potential study subject, and the company stated that “more testing was needed” to provide a suitable answer.

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Windows announced Bing Translator for Windows today. It’s a touch-enabled version of Bing Translator for Windows Phone that is now available for Windows 8 laptops, desktops, and tablets.

Bing Translator will translate more than 40 languages on web pages, in images, or in what Microsoft calls an augmented reality translation via a live video stream from your device’s camera:

The app, which Microsoft says is based on years of research into advanced machine learning, is free. It does use internet access, but because that can be difficult or expensive when traveling users can download offline language packs for the most common languages, such as French, Chinese, German, Italian, and Spanish. More offline languages are coming soon, Microsoft says.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about Bing Translator is that with this app, Microsoft has enabled fully-system-integrated translation.

“The Share Charm lets you quickly translate highlighted text in any Windows 8 app, with Snap View you can multi-task while browsing, chatting or more by snapping Bing Translator to the right or left of your screen,” Vikram Dendi, Microsoft’s director for Bing Translator write in an announcement.

And, of course, when on the go with your Windows tablet, you can also use Bing Translator to speak the translation out loud in certain languages, allowing you to communicate back to people even if you don’t know their language. Google Translate for Android has had this feature for several months now.

Bing Translator supports 42 languages — 43 including Klingon — eight fewer than Google Translate.

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It's off to the races for many of Microsoft's product teams. After years of delivering new product releases every two to three years, Windows, Office, Visual Studio, and just about every other consumer and business product group at the company is in the midst of trying to remake itself as a leaner, meaner, and more agile fighting machine.

Seemingly overnight, Redmond's product teams are going whole-hog with continuous development, cloud-first deliverables and subscription services. Because of the magic of big data analysis, it's easier than ever for the `Softies to gauge the immediate impact of a new product or feature, which, in turn, makes quicker, staggered rollouts possible.

Some armchair pundits think this attempted agility isn't a big deal. Instead of one big-bang release every three years, just roll out three bite-sized releases every year. Rename "service packs" as "updates" and -- boom -- problem solved, they argue.

Here's what those folks are forgetting: Microsoft has more than 1.4 billion Windows users and multiple hundreds of millions Office users worldwide. There are users of all ages, at all levels of tech know-how and across all economic continuums. Some of them identify as business customers; others are home users first and foremost.

Not all of these users want more releases coming at them more quickly. In fact, some businesses can't digest new versions delivered every two or three years. They often skip new versions of Windows Server or Exchange because of the testing, training and integration work they require.

At the same time, other businesses consider quarterly updates too few. Andy Pisoni, the founder and CTO of Yammer -- now the Microsoft enterprise social-networking arm -- recently told me that weekly updates would likely be appreciated by his customer base. But suggest to most SharePoint administrators that weekly updates are coming soon to a SharePoint farm near them, and most will likely reject that model.

Striking a balance is tricky. The new motto, at least on the Windows client team, is to be "principled, but not stubborn" when responding to customer feedback, as Windows CFO Tami Reller said last month. That means listening to those with opinions across the spectrum, including the extremes, but ultimately making decisions that are right for the majority -- whether it's about the return of the Start button to Windows, or the speed at which new Windows releases should be made available to users.

Right now, some of the Microsoft teams seem to be gravitating toward a cloud/on-premises dividing line as one way to try to keep the rollout pace sane.

The Office team is advising customers who aren't ready for quarterly or monthly updates (which is what the `Softies are now promising for Office 365) to stick to on-premises and private cloud configurations. These customers will get service packs and new versions of Microsoft products delivered to them on a slower schedule. Those who want the latest bells and whistles as soon as they're developed and tested should go cloud, meaning Windows Azure, Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online and so on.

In addition -- with what might be a bit too subtle, yet still important, distinction -- the Office team is using the word "upgrade" to refer to a new version of a service or product, and "update" to refer to new features meant to be added to an existing release. It's not clear whether Windows and other teams are following this same convention. The thinking seems to be that users, even business-centric ones, will be more willing and able to incorporate updates than upgrades at a faster delivery pace.

With Windows "Blue," Office "Gemini" and the quarterly Visual Studio releases, Microsoft is making some big changes in the way it develops, tests and delivers new products. We'll soon see if Microsoft is too far ahead of the majority of its user base -- or still not moving fast enough.

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