Surface Pro 3 and 4 pick up new 'Battery Limit' feature, more Surfaces to follow

Microsoft this week announced a new "Battery Limit" feature (via OnMSFT) for its Surface devices that is aimed at helping them maintain their power to concord a accuse after beingness connected to external power for long periods of time. Initially available for the Surface Pro 3 and Surface Pro iv, the feature volition somewhen gyre out to farther Surface devices in hereafter firmware updates.

The main goal for this feature is to assist in maintaining battery reliability in settings where a Surface may be used in things like kiosks and consoles, where the Surface device is rarely removed from a power source. Microsoft explains:

The new Battery Limit feature of Surface devices from Surface Pro 3 forward addresses these situations past providing a UEFI setting that instructs the battery controller to limit total charge to a maximum l%. Enabling the setting preserves the battery'due south ability to take and concur a accuse while it's connected to external power for an extended period of fourth dimension and is recommended for Surface devices integrated into solutions similar kiosks, consoles, and other scenarios where they are constantly continued to an external power supply.

Battery Limit Fashion can exist enabled via the Surface UEFI settings nether the "Boot configuration" option.

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