Windows modern (or connected) standby sucks donkey balls. When my laptop is in the sleep mode I don't need it to be connected, I don't need it to wake up to check for messages (or critical updates or whatever else). I need it to conserve as much battery as possible. It doesn't bother me that the wake up from the standby can be a couple of seconds slower. I don't care about a couple of seconds I care about waking up with as much battery charge as possible. With modern standby Microsoft misses the point entirely. Now I have to actually shut down the laptop before I put it in a backpack because I'm afraid that it's going to wake up from the modern standby and run down all of the battery while being in the backpack. I'd rather wait for the laptop to cold boot but have most of the battery charge left than my laptop waking up instantly without any battery charge.