Microsoft trashes Google’s latest Chrome battery life claims

Microsoft kicked off a battery life war with Chrome and Opera earlier this year, and Google finally responded last week. Microsoft's original tests showed exactly how bad Chrome is for laptop battery life, but Google's response was packaged in the release of Chrome 53 with CPU and GPU power consumption enhancements for video playback. Google even made a video with Surface Books, just like Microsoft, to compare its battery life improvements to previous versions of Chrome. Microsoft isn't convinced Google's latest browser update is that much better, though.

In a new blog post, Microsoft has tested Edge and Chrome battery life on a Surface Book running the latest versions of Chrome and Edge (from the Anniversary Update). Using the same...

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