Is Your WiFi Access Point Vista-Compliant?

There's a slightly odd article doing the rounds that says laptops running Windows Vista could burn through their batteries more quickly than users expect because "some wireless access points aren't configured to take advantage of the new operating system's Wi-Fi power-saving mode".

It sounds like what's happened is that Vista supports a newer technology than many access points -- which is to be expected in the world of computers, since every product isn't on the same release cycle. But what makes this story so strange is that it's written almost as if the problem is with WiFi, not with Vista. It seems rather ridiculous to imply that WiFi access points should be more accommodating to Vista, rather than the other way around, or to suggest that access points are broken because they don't support this feature Vista does.