Performance Monitor (perfmon) is a Windows tool used to view performance data.  Although the name of the tool implies that it is only for performance, it also provides useful information that can be used for power analysis. In this blog, I will talk about perfmon in Windows 8 and how to use it to determine, at a high level, if your application can be optimized for power. This version has additional information that is useful for analyzing power not found in previous versions of Windows.

Ultrabooks running Windows 8 with touch and sensor capabilities are soon to hit the market and for those of you developing HTML5 applications, you will be able to add these features to your applications.  Currently we are waiting for these sensor features to be added to the HTML5 standard, but in the meantime you can start to build and test your HTML5 apps for touch and sensor capabilities with a Google extension.