Matthew Garrett responds to the ASPM power regression

Yeah, sorry, that came across as a bit dismissive of me. We've certainly got no official relationships with Microsoft (as far as I know), and most unofficial relationships end up as a consequence of meeting people in person - and we rarely end up at the same conferences.

It's probably worth mentioning that the situation isn't unique to Linux. It turns out that widespread BIOS bugs do occasionally trip up Windows as well. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463112 is an example of this...