“After yesterday’s blog about the relevance of feature bloat, I
figured that I would follow up with some quantitative analysis on
the performance characteristics to measure resource bloat. This
isn’t the first time I’ve measured Office CPU and memory
consumption of Microsoft Office and Open Office. I have a whole
series on it dating back to 2005. This time, I’m pitting
Microsoft-backed OOXML (Office Open XML) versus the OASIS-backed
ODF (OpenDocument) format with Microsoft Office 2007 and Open
Office 2.2…”