Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Wed 23rd Jul 2008 14:32 UTC, submitted by ahz1
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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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.