PCs Left on Overnight Costs US Firms $2.8B/Year
From USA Today…
Leaving PCs on overnight costs companies $2.8B a year
We’ve always known this wasteful behavior has a cost associated with it. Now, it has a number assigned to it and it is a big one. Windows users can Hibernate their PC. It works reasonably well on XP and Vista though it is not 100% reliable. However, when it does work, it is faster than rebooting and re-opening applications.