Office 2007 hardly uses ANY ram!!

[Sean7512]

On the download page of the Office 2007 Beta 2, if you click on System Requirements, if informs you that you need ..."For running Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Beta-2 with Business Contact Manager, a PC is recommend with a processor 1 GHz and 512 KB of RAM or higher."

Wow, Microsoft has been hard at work to minimize the computer resources....If only it were true...

Here is a screenshot anyways..

 

[Nermal]

Such bloatware! I used to run Lotus Allways on a 512 KB system and had plenty left over!

 

[sushi]

On the download page of the Office 2007 Beta 2, if you click on System Requirements, if informs you that you need ..."For running Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Beta-2 with Business Contact Manager, a PC is recommend with a processor 1 GHz and 512 KB of RAM or higher."

Wow, Microsoft has been hard at work to minimize the computer resources....If only it were true...

Here is a screenshot anyways..

Funny!

I am sure they meant 512MB of RAM. That's unbelievable!

I suppose it won't be too long were 2GB of RAM is the minimum standard.

 

[yg17]

Well, obviously they mean 512 megs RAM. So this begs the question:

I know in the computer world, 512 megs is nothing. But Office requires that much? Maybe for power point or access I could see, but typing up a paper in Word shouldn't require that much.

 

[BlizzardBomb]

Well, obviously they mean 512 megs RAM. So this begs the question:

I know in the computer world, 512 megs is nothing. But Office requires that much? Maybe for power point or access I could see, but typing up a paper in Word shouldn't require that much.

Well it says recommended not minimum so I suppose it is reasonable, it will probably be refined closer to release as well.

 

[macEfan]

heh MAYBE they residesigned the program to be more efficient Nah, they just meant 512mb ram ..

 

[sushi]

heh MAYBE they residesigned the program to be more efficient Nah, they just meant 512mb ram ..

Unfortunately, bloatware is here to stay.

I remember the early days of the Mac when many programs were done in assembly language. Of course back then, the Mac SE could be expanded to 4MB of RAM and HDs were a huge 20MB!

 

[Abstract]

OMFG! MS mad ea mistake LOL!!1!!on!e!!!eleven!

 

[stubeeef]

Well, since it is as delayed as Vista, don't count your RAM yet. By release it could be a terabyte.

 

[Electro Funk]

Such bloatware! I used to run Lotus Allways on a 512 KB system and had plenty left over!

speaking of bloat... i DL'd the beta today...

office 2007 pro
visio pro
project pro
Groove
one note
share point

taking up almost 6 gigs of space after installed