Re: [OT] on the matter of bloat

Horton heard a Who named J.O. Aho saying:
sk8r-365 wrote:
ODS format to compare file size. Here's what I saw:

-rw-r--r-- 1 cmo cmo 20526 2007-09-29 09:50 070928-071004.ods
-rw-r--r-- 1 cmo cmo 132608 2007-09-29 09:39 070928-071004.xls

The OpenOffice file is 20KB and MS XlS is 132KB ! Imagine how much drive space
is being wasted world-wide and Net bandwidth due to MS bloat! This singular file
size difference is more than a 6:1 ratio.

I did something similar a few years ago, I had a doc file that I had saved
with MS-office at a school, got home edited the file and saved it in ms-doc
format with oo, if I remember it correctly I did get a 2:1 ration, even if I
had a half A4 page more on the edited version.

Something I noticed when comparing the two files was that microsoft stores
which font is used almost each line and of course as much information as
possible about the user who created the document, like login, computer and so
on...


And to what purpose, and to what user value, does MS gather such info?

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sk8r-365
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1) go to http://goodbye-microsoft.com
2) replace existing operating system.
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  • Re: [OT] on the matter of bloat
    ... The OpenOffice file is 20KB and MS XlS is 132KB! ... Imagine how much drive space ... is being wasted world-wide and Net bandwidth due to MS bloat! ...
    (alt.os.linux)
  • Re: [OT] on the matter of bloat
    ... hardcopy. ... Twenty-first Century, my a**. ... The OpenOffice file is 20KB and MS XlS is 132KB! ...
    (alt.os.linux)