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November 9th, 2007

I was inspired to write this after reading a post on another forum about Vista and SP1.
Sadly, the poster apparently had swallowed these two blog entries without chewing.
But what am I talking about? Let's take a look.

"exo.blog The official blog for the editors and research staff and of the exo.performance.network (www.xpnet.com)"

Sounds professional enough, they apparently released some sort of Microsoft Office benchmark.

Let's take a look on our candinate number 1http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html

They make a big fuss on how Office 2007 eats 12 times the RAM and 3 times processing power compared to Office 2000, released only "seven short years ago".
They however fail to tell us how exactly they ended up with those numbers - the official minimum requirements? Pulled numbers from a hat? A fairy told them?
Well, regardless on where they got their numbers from, they completely disregard the past which doesn't suit their needs - "how can we bash Vista and everything related" (no-one can or will deny how Office 2007 is Vista related).
Let's go 7 more years back in time, to 1993. Let's take a office software from those days, and then compare it to Office 2000 - do you really think the difference there isn't at least as big as with 2000 vs 2007?

"But hey, we got some benches too" - yeah, tests run on a bloody virtual machines. Sure, the platform, VMWare, is in theory the same for all - but did they take into account that even with endless horsepower in the host, different systems actually might run better or worse under the virtual machine compared to the others?

Time for candinate 2:http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/11/vista-sp1-performance-dud.html

Vista SP1, according to them, won't be brining any performance increases. How do they know? Simple, with mere 2 different benchmark suites, one being their own office bench and other.. I don't even want to guess what that is, ran on a notebook with dual core cpu and 1GB RAM with unpatched Vista vs Vista with RC0 version of SP1 (which most likely won't be final version), they know for a fact now that Vista SP1 won't be bringing any performance increases whatsoever.
 
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Am I the only one who doesn't like what we're seeing there?