Best battery usage for windows

I use boot camp and installed windows 7 and it's running great, however the battery performance is really not that good (I just got my MBP last month).
Now I'm wondering, instead of using boot camp and have about 1.5 to 2 hours of windows 7, should I install fusion (or parallel) and get windows 7 to run that way so my battery can run longer?
any suggestions/thoughts? thanks!

thanks, Jason for the reply.
Since I'm still new to mac, I'm still experiencing how to get close to 10 hours of battery life apple claimed. (I tried lowing the brightness, anything else?)
battery life in windows is no more than 2 hours in windows. I didn't mean to compare the battery life with win 7 and Mac OS X, but maybe you guys who has more experience can tell me which would you prefer:
1. install windows 7 with boot camp (dual boot)
or
2. install windows 7 using VMWare (or Parallel)
which of the 2 above will have better performance?
which of the 2 above will have better battery life?
thanks!

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