[bluedino]

I agree that these are very simple cases, and it's like benchmarking compiliation or execution of helloworld.cpp

It would be interesting to see something like:

- cold boot

- load Windows

- load Office

- open a 200 page document

- create pdf from said document

- open 5000 row spreadsheet

- do a mail merge

- open 150,000 record database

- generate some goofy report

Do people still do mail merge? Not sure.

[lproven]

Just FWIW, that is what PC Pro magazine's benchmark suite did in the early 1990s.

It ran (5-10x) a set of scripted operations in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, PhotoShop, and WinZip, on large files, and that was the basis of of the benchmark score.

I ported the benchmark suite from 16-bit Windows to 32-bit Windows.