{"id":190,"date":"2007-05-24T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2007-05-24T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-24T14:19:09","slug":"the-epitomy-of-bloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"The Epitome of Bloat&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just downloaded Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/mac\/downloads.aspx?pid=download&#038;location=\/mac\/download\/Office2004\/ConverterBeta.xml\">Office Open XML Converter beta<\/a> for MacOS X, and was surprised to see that it was a 24.9 MB Disk Image.  The application that was installed was only 3.9 MB, however, I assume that there is a bunch of supporting files that went into the Application Support folders somewhere.  As a point of comparison, the freely available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/calculate_convert\/docxconverter.html\">docx-converter widget<\/a> for the Dashboard downloads at 154 KB and post-installation, comes in at 304 KB.  While I&#8217;m confident that the Microsoft converter is more robust, I&#8217;m really surprised at just how big it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just downloaded Microsoft&#8217;s Office Open XML Converter beta for MacOS X, and was surprised to see that it was a 24.9 MB Disk Image. The application that was installed was only 3.9 MB, however, I assume that there is a bunch of supporting files that went into the Application Support folders somewhere. As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-microsoft"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biske.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}