This is directly relevant to a popular discussion[1] on HN less than 2 weeks ago. Even ignoring that there is almost nothing more important than power usage in computer hardware engineering, so improvements are always interesting.
Finally, it is hardly shilling when the linked article shows it still has worse battery life than the iPad 4 or Nexus 7 (and worse than the Surface 2 on Video Playback?!).
To be fair, Surface Pro is the only non-ARM tablet in those charts. It is impressively going neck to neck with a 10-inch Galaxy tab which is an ARM tab.
That does not invalidate the subject matter though, which is written by Anand Shimpi, one of most reputed bloggers. Besides, the submitter did not edit the title. It should be ok for the employees to submit content and comment (they should be tell about the company connection) as it brings out inner perspective to the table. Let's not be close minded in this community please. I enjoy Matt Cutts posts on here, then there is tptacek, along with lots of valuable posters. It's all good mate.
He's a former PM at Microsoft, but it's still not relevany. Even if say, Adam D'Angelo posted something related to facebook or a former Apple employee posted something about the new 10.9 update increasing macbook battery life, it's not considered "shilling".
