[THIN] RAM usage in plain text

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Guys,
I've been doing a bit of research for my own purposes but which might be helpful for others, and I've got some gaps. I made a throwaway comment a week or so ago about how Office 2007 seemed to use less RAM under Windows 2008, and thought it would be helpful to quantify that.

I've therefore tested, not very scientifically, different versions (2003 and 2007) of Office, running under different TS OSes (2003/8, 32/64-bit). Please note that I only tested each app once, the platforms have different hardware on them, and different numbers of users plus other apps running on them, so these figures should definitely be taken with a pinch of salt.

This is also absolutely not an analysis of how an OS runs with 20, 50, or a hundred different sessions of the same App; I wasn't looking at Total Ram, just taking the reported figure out of Task Manager.

Also please note that these were running pure TS, no Citrix involved.

I also have gaps; if others could test to fill in those gaps this might become quite useful.

The obvious conclusion (With all caveats above) from this is that either Windows 2008 (?64-bit?) is vastly more efficient at handling Office 2007, *or* that it's Task Manager reports differently (?More accurately?) - perhaps cleverer people than I might comment?

32-bit 32-Bit 64-Bit 64-bit
Windows 2003 Windows 2008 Windows 2003 Windows 2008
Office 2007
Word 57992 15084
Excel 38360 11928
Powerpoint 40416 25548
Outlook 117216 17096

Office 2003
Word 34420 117828
Excel 24244 16156
Powerpoint 12952 17168
Outlook 20788 117716

Testing for Word, Excel, Powerpoint
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Opened App
New Document
Typed word 'Test'
Forced Spell Check
Saved document
Checked RAM

Testing for Outlook
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Opened App
Opened New Email
Typed Word Test
Used Gal to address to myself
Sent Email
Checked RAM

All tests run as Domain Admin with Local Admin Rights
In Office 2003, Outlook was using Word 2003
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