[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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