<story><title>Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbnjeh</author><text>Finally, an explanation.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t run around enough to care about quick&amp;#x2F;instant startup. Despite using the Windows 10 Windows menu Power command to &amp;quot;Shut down&amp;quot; my Thinkpad X1C6, I took it out of its bag the following day, on a few not too infrequent occasions, to find it warm and &amp;quot;doing stuff&amp;quot; (Windows Update sticks in my mind). Moreso than a lowered charge, the idea of it cooking itself inside its padded sleeve and bag caused me concern.&lt;p&gt;After a bit of investigation, I settled on training myself to always open&amp;#x2F;use a command window to issue &amp;quot;shutdown &amp;#x2F;s&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;No more warm or hot, drained laptop since then.&lt;p&gt;I agree with Linus: Microsoft&amp;#x27;s behavior and indifference WRT this problem is reprehensible. For me, it is another example of how Microsoft has not -- fundamentally -- changed since its E3 days. The 900 pound gorilla that we will, per force, accommodate. Amazing how entrenched such cultural mindsets are.&lt;p&gt;By the way, the X1C6 as configured by Lenovo does not support S3. Since Linus, in his demo of a possible BIOS configuration change, was using a Thinkpad, maybe I&amp;#x27;ll get lucky with that option -- watch the video to see whether you might have such a fix for your system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jiggawatts</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re just not understanding &lt;i&gt;the situation&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Someone in Microsoft has a KPI related to the percentage of machines updated with the latest patches every month.&lt;p&gt;He or she can best meet their KPIs at the low, low cost of the occasional destroyed laptop, fire, or -- &lt;i&gt;very rare&lt;/i&gt; -- customer death.&lt;p&gt;People just have to accept the risk of burning to death so that this person can meet their KPIs by forcefully updating laptops even if they&amp;#x27;re hibernating, in a laptop bag, and in the cargo hold of an airliner.&lt;p&gt;Those passengers knew what they were signing up for when they boarded that plane together with a Windows user.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Is Forcing Me to Buy MacBooks</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHKKcd3sx2c</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>pbnjeh</author><text>Finally, an explanation.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t run around enough to care about quick&amp;#x2F;instant startup. Despite using the Windows 10 Windows menu Power command to &amp;quot;Shut down&amp;quot; my Thinkpad X1C6, I took it out of its bag the following day, on a few not too infrequent occasions, to find it warm and &amp;quot;doing stuff&amp;quot; (Windows Update sticks in my mind). Moreso than a lowered charge, the idea of it cooking itself inside its padded sleeve and bag caused me concern.&lt;p&gt;After a bit of investigation, I settled on training myself to always open&amp;#x2F;use a command window to issue &amp;quot;shutdown &amp;#x2F;s&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;No more warm or hot, drained laptop since then.&lt;p&gt;I agree with Linus: Microsoft&amp;#x27;s behavior and indifference WRT this problem is reprehensible. For me, it is another example of how Microsoft has not -- fundamentally -- changed since its E3 days. The 900 pound gorilla that we will, per force, accommodate. Amazing how entrenched such cultural mindsets are.&lt;p&gt;By the way, the X1C6 as configured by Lenovo does not support S3. Since Linus, in his demo of a possible BIOS configuration change, was using a Thinkpad, maybe I&amp;#x27;ll get lucky with that option -- watch the video to see whether you might have such a fix for your system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>I will never buy a Microsoft laptop or tablet again unless there is a switch to really truly turn the damn thing off. My Surface Pro 4, which was only lightly used, had the battery degrade about as fast as you might expect from a very heavily used machine probably due to &amp;quot;shut down&amp;quot; not actually shutting down.</text></comment>