Star Benchmarking Microsoft Word From 95 To 2007
Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 14:32 UTC, submitted by ahz1
Benchmarks Andrew Ziem takes a close look at Microsoft Word performance in a benchmark with 4500 measurements in 5 categories covering 6 versions and 12 years of releases to determine whether Word has become slower or faster over the years.
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RE[3]: Nothing to see here.
by WorknMan on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 18:16 UTC in reply to "RE[2]: Nothing to see here."
WorknMan
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2005-11-13

Linux? You are changing the operating system? Why? Those results are invalid. Benchmarking MS Office 2007 and Openoffice 2.4 on Vista, that is valid and quite interesting.


I just fired up Word 2007 on an XP machine (Intel E6550 @ 2.33ghz) and it started in less than a second. I dunno if you can get much faster than that ;)

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RE[4]: Nothing to see here.
by iserlohn on Thu 24th Jul 2008 10:05 in reply to "RE[3]: Nothing to see here."
iserlohn Member since:
2006-02-24

That's a flawed metric because it is not really possible to turn off the preloading of many of the DLLs even if you disable OSA.

Of course from a UI point of view it makes sense, but you would need to compare it with other programs with preloading turned on.

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