I installed Office 2010 Professional Plus earlier today, and it looks pretty good. It sure as hell better not be 5K in price. They should make a Microsoft Office Ultimate Premium Diamond Plus Deluxe Best Edition starting at just $4999.95. It's still off-putting seeing office take up 1.5 hard drives )īuho: OxygenOffice Professional has. Is there a scale issue on that graph that I'm not seeing? I have a question about the bottom chart, though, which shows maximum hard drives as being 1TB in space, but MS office taking up 1.5 TB? 5,000 GB just seemed a little over-the-top :) I clarified the article to distinguish the 5000MB from the Blu-ray: they are referring to different editions of MSO. I made up the Microsoft Office Premium Platinum Plus edition, but in truth, Microsoft Office frequently introduces new products and new editions. The comment about Blu-Ray was partially a joke. I meant this article from an academic and curious point of view. 5GB would be a lot 500GB would be astonishing, but 5 terabytes? Also, that doesn't jive with the comment about blu-rays.īuho: Yes, disk space is cheap and not a problem. Some sort of bundled openclipart )ĭid you really mean 5,000GB by 2013? That's quite an exponential curve. For example it whouldn't be crazy to include a big clipart gallery with OpenOffice and whould take a lot of space. I don't find taking more space a problem. This is second in a series on performance. However, if the 3.0 standard edition bundles additional applications (such as Thunderbird and Lightning), the trend will change. That means each Microsoft Office version consumes a larger percentage of a contemporary hard drive.Įxtrapolation estimates will reach 1000MB around the year 2024 and it will never exceed Microsoft Office's size. Inspection indicates Microsoft Office Standard editions growth more closely in step with maximum disk capacities while more closely follows standard disk capacities. Watch out for the double Y axes: megabyte scale for disk usage and a gigabyte scale for disk capacity. The next chart combines the Microsoft Office installations, installations, standard (meaning new but modest) PC disk sizes, and maximum PC disk sizes. ![]() At this rate of growth, Microsoft Office Standard 2013 will be 5000MB, and the Microsoft Office Premium Platinum Plus 2013 edition (a larger edition than the Standard edition) will come on a set of Blu-ray discs. The Microsoft Office data points fits an exponential curve remarkably well with R 2=0.94. ![]() ![]() Which should be measured? I used the printed values for the typical installation size for the Standard versions. While all editions have Word, each edition has a different set of other products such as Access, Outlook, and Visio. The number of editions has ballooned from a 2 in Office 4 (1994) to a confusing 9 in 2007. Another complication is Office's numerous editions. Because old versions of Microsoft Office are not as accessible as, the sizes are based on system requirements printed at the web site-a site which is remarkably thorough. Let's get ready to rumble!Īgain we are measuring the installed disk usage of each release. In the first corner, we have heavyweight Microsoft Office in the second, undefeated champion Moore's Law in the third corner, underdog.
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