“Despite years of real-world experience with both sides of the duopoly, few organizations have taken the time to directly quantify what my colleagues and I at Intel used to call The Great Moore’s Law Compensator (TGMLC),” Randall Kennedy explains. And with that, we make what is perhaps the first-ever attempt to accurately measure the evolution of the Windows/Office platform in terms of real-world hardware system requirements and resource consumption, in Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft’s king of bloat. That crown, naturally, was most recently passed down to Office 2007 running on Windows Vista. “Microsoft Office 2007, when deployed on Windows Vista, consumes more than 12 times as much memory and nearly three times as much processing power as the version that graced PCs just seven short years ago, Office 2000,” Kennedy writes. InfoWorld’s new Windows Sentinel tool enables you to monitor your own Windows and Office system performance. Software Development