I don’t think it’s the old code that’s bloated. I’ve been using office '97 at work for… reasons, and despite some bugs it still runs on the latest windows server, does pretty much everything Word 365 does and is much faster… really makes you think.
Word 97 also has a memory requirement of 8 MB.
That legacy win32 code is extremely optimized, programmed in a time where every bit and byte was considered. It’s today’s background services and applications that slow Windows down, consuming memory and cycles for no apparent reason.
Office apps have also become much slower and less stable since they integrated cloud support and bolted on javascript for the user interface.
I had the same issue with slow loading office at work. If you check the network request, office opens 10 or even more connections on startup, i guess at least one is for licence check, possibly another one for one drive. However one of the requests took more than 8 seconds to complete, and during the whole time office would just sit idle.
ostensibly, it’s also for things like collaboration. But I’m willing to bet that at least half the data going across the servers are telemetry and… if we’re being honest, probably corporate espionage.
Legacy code bloat. How much of that macOS code is even from win32 word?
Last I heard the Mac version of word was entirely different code than the Windows program. Different teams too.
But that was a long time ago. Things could have changed especially with the change to subscription/web deployment.
I don’t think it’s the old code that’s bloated. I’ve been using office '97 at work for… reasons, and despite some bugs it still runs on the latest windows server, does pretty much everything Word 365 does and is much faster… really makes you think.
Word 97 also has a memory requirement of 8 MB. That legacy win32 code is extremely optimized, programmed in a time where every bit and byte was considered. It’s today’s background services and applications that slow Windows down, consuming memory and cycles for no apparent reason.
Office apps have also become much slower and less stable since they integrated cloud support and bolted on javascript for the user interface.
I had the same issue with slow loading office at work. If you check the network request, office opens 10 or even more connections on startup, i guess at least one is for licence check, possibly another one for one drive. However one of the requests took more than 8 seconds to complete, and during the whole time office would just sit idle.
Not to mention new outlook which won’t even open without an internet connection
ostensibly, it’s also for things like collaboration. But I’m willing to bet that at least half the data going across the servers are telemetry and… if we’re being honest, probably corporate espionage.
Nah I use office 2013 at work because fuck 365 and it is fine.