FLAC is a cross-platform codec, but when it comes to Windows, one has a pretty wide range of compiles. Some are more optimized than others.
I first got the idea for this benchmark when I stumbled upon a native 64-bit FLAC executable…
Archive for the tag 'Microsoft'
Apr 29 2008
Windows XP SP3
Eh. It’s good, I suppose, and I’m sure its much-vaunted performance is there, but this is very much a service pack dealing with O/S guts, and not a massive feature pack a la SP2. I can’t immediately tell any difference.
In other…
Feb 15 2008
Size curves for office file formats
Just a few days ago, I compared the relative sizes of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) and OASIS’s OpenDocument format (ODF). I noticed that while OOXML was smaller for smaller amounts of text, ODF was smaller for larger documents. I…
Feb 12 2008
Comparing office file formats
A while ago, as OpenOffice.org 2.0 approached completion, I compared the file sizes of Microsoft Office’s binary format against OpenOffice’s new OpenDocument format. Recall that OpenDocument is an XML-based storage formatted that is ultimate compressed into a zip file, creating smaller…
Oct 23 2007
Microserfs
Microserfs by Douglas Coupland- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Year: 1996
- Pages: 384
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So soon after I read Show Stopper!, my literary travels once again take me back to Microsoft… sort of. Microserfs is a fictional story of a…