Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
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Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#2For all the ESG virtue signaling that Microsoft does, you’d think they’d be concerned about the climate impact of this and why their applications are so inefficient.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#3For all the ESG virtue signaling that Microsoft does, you’d think they’d be concerned about the climate impact of this and why their applications are so inefficient.
There's an old quote about "why would I pay to have the code written more efficiently when processors are constantly getting faster and harddrives are constantly getting bigger?" that always comes to mind about MS software. I don't know the validity of that quote to be any more accurate than the 640k memory one, but it always just had the feel of authenticity by everything you see as circumstantial evidence
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#4I still can't believe how slow MS Word is to load a .docx document of about 150 pages of text, you can watch the page count in the status bar grow over a period of 10 seconds or more as it loads/paginates it.
On the plus side, it's nostalgic and reminds me of the old MS Word 6 on Windows 95 (or Windows 3.1?) so that's nice.l
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#5I'm more surprised that this is news than anything else.
If you had asked me a minute ago, I could have sworn it's already a well known fact that they do this. They've been doing it since Windows 95 and explorer. At least.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#6Why on startup? Windows startup is already so painfully slow, especially compared to Apple silicon machines, and adding Office to it would only compound this problem. I think this problem can be avoided, while also still helping pre-load Office, if Windows just detects when resource utilization is low and loads Office in the background then.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#7Why on startup? Windows startup is already so painfully slow, especially compared to Apple silicon machines, and adding Office to it would only compound this problem. I think this problem can be avoided, while also still helping pre-load Office, if Windows just detects when resource utilization is low and loads Office in the background then.
> Why on startup?
Because Windows is usually a lot less optional than Office, for the average user.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#8That's is not a new idea. I think Office 97 had an accelerated startup that made windows take a little longer the boot but faster the start office.
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#9It's a great idea and the reason Microsoft are the biggest in the game. Kudos to them, I tip my hat! Here here!
Re: Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
#10Nothing new and closing Office applications don’t necessarily terminate some of the Office processes - notoriously Outlook.